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cantles

cantles is the plural 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.

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Questions about cantles

What is cantles the plural of?
Cantles is the plural of cantle.

Words near cantles in the dictionary

  1. cantitruncated
  2. cantitruncation
  3. cantitruncations
  4. cantle
  5. cantled
  6. cantles
  7. cantlet
  8. cantlets
  9. Cantley
  10. Cantley, Limpenhoe and Southwood
  11. Cantleys

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