cantle🔊

(obsolete) A splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something.

💬 Quotations

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.

William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1

The raised back of a saddle.

💬 Quotations

He recognised a horse when he saw one, and could do more than fill a cantle.

Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills

Next day, he returned with a camel-saddle of equal beauty, the long brass horns of its cantles adorned with exquisite old Yemeni engraving.

T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom

The traps were packed in the splitwillow basket that his father wore with the shoulderstraps loosed so that the bottom of the basket carried on the cantle of the saddle behind him.

Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

(Scotland) The top of the head.

(Scotland) On many styles of sporran, a metal arc along the top of the pouch, usually fronting the clasp.

(obsolete) To cut into pieces.

(obsolete) To cut out from.

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