cantle
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cantle
- /ˈkantəl/ UK
- /ˈkæntəl/ US
Rhymes with (US) -æntəl
Where it comes from
From Middle English cantle, cantel, from Old Northern French cantel, Old French chantel (Modern French chanteau, Bourguignon chainteâ), from Medieval Latin cantellus, diminutive of Latin cantus (“corner”). Compare cant (Etymology 3).
Kroonen instead connects this term with Dutch kant (“side; edge”) and German Kanz (“mane, upper part of the neck”), deriving them from a Proto-Germanic *kantaz (“side (of the head?); cheek”), connecting it to the Baltic words Lithuanian žandas (“cheek, jaw”) and Latvian zuods (“chin, jaw”), all from a hypothetical Proto-Indo-European *ǵond-o-.
noun cantles
- 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.
- The raised back of a saddle. He recognised a horse when he saw one, and could do more than fill a cantle.
- The top of the head.
- On many styles of sporran, a metal arc along the top of the pouch, usually fronting the clasp.
verb cantles · cantling · cantled
- To cut into pieces.
- To cut out from.
Translations
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noun back part of saddle
| Français | troussequin |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Sattelbausch, Sattelwulst |
| Русский | за́дняя лука́ zádnjaja luká |
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title = {cantle},
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