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cantel

cantel is the alternative form of cantle.

Meaning of cantle

Noun

cantle (plural cantles)

  1. (obsolete) A splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something.
    • See how this river comes me cranking in, / And cuts me from the best of all my land / A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out., Act III, Scene i
  2. The raised back of a saddle.
    • He recognised a horse when he saw one, and could do more than fill a cantle.1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 93
  3. (Scotland) The top of the head.
  4. (Scotland) On many styles of sporran, a metal arc along the top of the pouch, usually fronting the clasp.

See all 6 meanings of cantle

Forms of cantel

pluralcantels

Questions about cantel

What is cantel the alternative form of?
Cantel is the alternative form of cantle.

Words near cantel in the dictionary

  1. canteen wagons
  2. canteenless
  3. canteens
  4. cantefable
  5. cantefables
  6. cantel
  7. cantellated
  8. cantellation
  9. cantellations
  10. cantelope
  11. cantelopes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cantel (page history and authors); cantle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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