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cantle

[ UK /kˈɑːntə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈkæntəɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the back of a saddle seat

How To Use cantle In A Sentence

  • The camels took their first abrupt steps, and we riders had quickly to hook our legs round the front cantles, and pick up the head-stalls to check the pace. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
  • The apprizer, therefore (as the holder of a mortgage was then called), entered upon possession, and, in the language of Hotspur, ‘came me cranking in, ’ and cut the family out of another monstrous cantle of their remaining property. Chapter II
  • Will you let us take the scantle, and the rig of it, your honor?” Mary Anerley
  • In 1925 he married Lettice, daughter of Cecil Cantley Baker, a land agent.
  • The Dike, extending from the rough North Sea to the calmer waters of Bridlington Bay, is nothing more than a deep dry trench, skillfully following the hollows of the ground, and cutting off Flamborough Head and a solid cantle of high land from the rest of Yorkshire. Mary Anerley
  • Gonatodes ocellatus, ocellated gecko, adult male by Daniel Scantlebury — This species is found only on rocky slopes on Tobago and Little Tobago Island. Photography contest: Finalists, General Category - The Panda's Thumb
  • We ' re left to guess, for instance, what it means that a man has his camelhair jacket shoggling over the cantle of the saddle. Southwestern Gothic
  • This includes the town's only Catholic secondary, McAuley High School, in Cantley, which fears its ‘unique culture’ may be at risk.
  • Grasping the horn in one hand, the cantle in his other, he stiffly pulled himself onto the burro. Deuces Wild
  • The exigency of the case was manifest to Helen, when she saw how they came down over the cantles of the saddles and to their boot-tops. The Man of the Forest
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