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- verb Present participle of
canter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop
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Examples
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That they are inherited we see with horses in certain transmitted paces, such as cantering and ambling, which are not natural to them, -- in the pointing of young pointers and the setting of young setters -- in the peculiar COMEBACK manner of flight of certain breeds of the pigeon, &c.
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"That they" (acquired actions) "are inherited, we see with horses in certain transmitted paces, such as cantering and ambling, which are not natural to them -- in the pointing of young pointers, and the setting of young setters -- in the peculiar manner of flight of certain breeds of the pigeon, &c.
Life and Habit Samuel Butler 1868
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We'd driven close to a small herd of buffalo cantering around the top of a rise north of the tribe's capitol in Fort Yates, North Dakota.
Stephanie Woodard: Buffalo Gardeners: Standing Rock Sioux Harvest Bison, Garden to Restore Health Stephanie Woodard 2011
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Watching dozens of police horses cantering across the park, past a playground with swings and through a hail of missiles, one woman said she felt she was "dreaming".
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I was looking round for him but he was just cantering down in his own time.
Frankel could be the best colt ever trained by veteran Henry Cecil 2011
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We'd driven close to a small herd of buffalo cantering around the top of a rise north of the tribe's capitol in Fort Yates, North Dakota.
Stephanie Woodard: Buffalo Gardeners: Standing Rock Sioux Harvest Bison, Garden to Restore Health Stephanie Woodard 2011
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She added the role of Minnie, a poker-playing barmaid, last spring at San Francisco Opera, cantering into act three on horseback.
Susan Dormady Eisenberg: Soprano Deborah Voigt Launches a Rich New Season of Firsts Susan Dormady Eisenberg 2010
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Just after passing the foot of the descent, he heard the hoof beats of a cantering horse.
Chapter XII 2010
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She added the role of Minnie, a poker-playing barmaid, last spring at San Francisco Opera, cantering into act three on horseback.
Susan Dormady Eisenberg: Soprano Deborah Voigt Launches a Rich New Season of Firsts Susan Dormady Eisenberg 2010
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We'd driven close to a small herd of buffalo cantering around the top of a rise north of the tribe's capitol in Fort Yates, North Dakota.
Stephanie Woodard: Buffalo Gardeners: Standing Rock Sioux Harvest Bison, Garden to Restore Health Stephanie Woodard 2011
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