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canter

[ US /ˈkæntɝ/ ]
[ UK /kˈɑːntɐ/ ]
VERB
  1. ride at a canter
    The men cantered away
  2. ride at a cantering pace
    He cantered the horse across the meadow
  3. go at a canter, of horses
NOUN
  1. 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.
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