Definition of Cantles

1. Noun. (plural of cantle) ¹

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Definition of Cantles

1. cantle [n] - See also: cantle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantles

cantillated
cantillates
cantillating
cantillation
cantillations
cantina
cantinas
cantiness
canting
cantingly
cantings
cantion
cantions
cantle
cantled
cantles (current term)
cantlet
cantlets
cantlie line
cantling
canto
canton
cantonal
cantoned
cantoning
cantonize
cantonized
cantonizes
cantonizing
cantonment

Literary usage of Cantles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ivories by Alfred Maskell (1905)
"De diver sis artibus, has already been quoted, gives minute directions for the embellishment of the panels and backs of the cantles of saddles, ..."

2. Walter of Henley's Husbandry: Together with an Anonymous Husbandry by Walter of Henley, William Cunningham (1890)
"... and the half-bushels, and the cantles, and others that they use in the garners without tally or number, bring little profit to the lord. ..."

3. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"... Sam, Humphrey, and the cantles. Moreover, fifty yards off stood a hut, built of clods and covered with thin turves, but now entirely disused. ..."

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