[
US
/ˈkæntɝ/
]
[ UK /kˈɑːntɐ/ ]
[ UK /kˈɑːntɐ/ ]
VERB
-
ride at a canter
The men cantered away -
ride at a cantering pace
He cantered the horse across the meadow - go at a canter, of horses
NOUN
- a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop
How To Use canter In A Sentence
- He did his final piece of serious work on Tuesday morning, which was grand, and we have just kept him ticking over with a couple of canters.
- We lapped the track a few times at a walk, trot and canter and the horse went through it pretty smoothly.
- Just as she reached the stairs to enter the house, an ugly gelding cantered to a stop and the rotund rider ungracefully dismounted.
- That put the pressure firmly on Best Mate's shoulders with the tension in the crowd palpable as the horses cantered down to the start.
- Then the Archbishop of Canterbury stepped forward, mitre and all, and called us, in sonorous tones, to prayer. ANTI-ICE
- I strongly recommend that you go there, either on foot or by car as the view from there gives a panorama of Canterbury mountains.
- His speech was preceded by one from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Times, Sunday Times
- It allows horses to work at varying speeds, from trot to canter on an all-weather track. Times, Sunday Times
- The Boer never rides his horse at the trot, but at a quick walk or canter, and a step peculiar to the country and called ‘trippling’, or, as we should style it, ambling.
- They even visit Canterbury on their way, but the tales they tell (mostly to us, not each other) are the bitter-sweet flashbacks of memory, not episodes of instructive fiction.