cant
A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
(derogatory) Empty, hypocritical talk.
He is too well grounded for all your philosophical Cant to hurt.
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world,—though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst,—the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
... he knew very well that if they thought him clever they were being taken in, but it pleased him to have been able to take them in, and he tried to do so still further; he was therefore a good deal on the look-out for cants that he could catch and apply in season, and might have done himself some mischief thus if he had not been ready to throw over any cant as soon as he had come across another more nearly to his fancy ...
Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
(heraldry) A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
(obsolete) A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.
(speaking) To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
To speak in set phrases.
To talk, beg, or preach in a singsong or whining fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
(heraldry) Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
(obsolete) To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.
(obsolete) Side, edge, corner, niche.
Slope, the angle at which something is set.
Owing to the cant of the vessel, the masts hung far out over the water, and from my perch on the cross-trees I had nothing below me but the surface of the bay.
A corner (of a building).
An outer or external angle.
An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
A movement or throw that overturns something.
A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
(coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
(nautical) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
(lumbering) An unfinished log after preliminary cutting.
To set (something) at an angle; to tilt.
To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
To bevel an edge or corner.
To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
(obsolete) To divide or parcel out.
(dialectal, forestry) A parcel, a division.
(British, dialectal) Lively, lusty.
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