GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Cant, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Canted; p. pr. & vb. n. Canting.]
   To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.
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   To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football.
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   To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.
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   Canting , a. Speaking in a whining tone of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a canting tone.
   -- Cant"ing*ly, adv. -- Cant"ing*ness, n.
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   Canting arms, Canting heraldry (Her.), bearings in the nature of a rebus alluding to the name of the bearer. Thus, the Castletons bear three castles, and Pope Adrian IV. (Nicholas Breakspeare) bore a broken spear.
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   Canting, n. The use of cant; hypocrisy.
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