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cantile

cantile is the alternative form of cantle.

Meaning of cantle

Verb

cantle (third-person singular simple present cantles, present participle cantling, simple past and past participle cantled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To cut into pieces.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To cut out from.

See all 6 meanings of cantle

Forms of cantile

third-person singular presentcantiles
present participlecantiling
past participlecantiled
pastcantiled

Questions about cantile

What is cantile the alternative form of?
Cantile is the alternative form of cantle.

Words near cantile in the dictionary

  1. cantiga
  2. cantigas
  3. Cantigny
  4. cantil
  5. Cantilan
  6. cantile
  7. cantiled
  8. cantilena
  9. cantilenas
  10. cantilever
  11. cantilever bra

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cantile (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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