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  • noun Plural form of cantle.

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Examples

  • Next day, he returned with a camel-saddle of equal beauty, the long brass horns of its cantles adorned with exquisite old Yemeni engraving.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • 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 Thomas Edward 2003

  • Why did not he by testament leave them, at least, some jolly lumps and cantles of substantial meat, a parcel of cheek-puffing victuals, and a little belly-timber and provision for the guts of these poor folks, who have nothing but their life in this world?

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • One by one, plump little bodies accumulated, tied to the cantles and pom'mels of saddles.

    Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • Why did not he by testament leave them, at least, some jolly lumps and cantles of substantial meat, a parcel of cheek-puffing victuals, and a little belly-timber and provision for the guts of these poor folks, who have nothing but their life in this world?

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Their saddles were different from any she had seen before, with high pommels and cantles.

    Stone of Tears Goodkind, Terry 1995

  • He had sold more saddles than Custer had men, and the old cow saddles with their big horns and high cantles didn't look like an army saddle nohow.

    David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story George S. Harney

  • 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 1919

  • They would throw great cantles of iron from the tops of the masts, and many of our people met their death through it.

    Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906

  • 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 Zane Grey 1905

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