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noun
A splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
The raised back of a saddle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The top of the head.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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noun
On many styles of sporran, a metal arc along the top of the pouch, usually fronting the clasp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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verb
To cut into pieces.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
To cut out from.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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noun
the back of a saddle seat
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: back, backrest
History
From Middle English cantle, cantel, from Old Northern French cantel, Old French chantel (Modern French chanteau, Bourguignon chainteâ), from Medieval Latin cantellus, diminutive of Latin cantus (“corner”). Compare cant (Etymology 3). Kroonen instead connects this term with Dutch kant (“side; edge”) and German Kanz (“mane, upper part of the neck”), deriving them from a Proto-Germanic *kantaz (“side (of the head?); cheek”), connecting it to the Baltic words Lithuanian žandas (“cheek, jaw”) and Latvian zuods (“chin, jaw”), all from a hypothetical Proto-Indo-European *ǵond-o-.
Across languages
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