cants
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Definitions ofcants
- An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
Example: "He had the look of a prince, but the cant of a fishmonger."
- A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
- A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
- Empty, hypocritical talk.
Example: "People claim to care about the poor of Africa, but it is largely cant."
- Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
- A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
- A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.
- To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
- To speak in set phrases.
- To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
- Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
- To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.
- Side, edge, corner, niche.
Example: "Under the cant of a hill."
- Slope, the angle at which something is set.
- A corner (of a building).
Synonyms: corner
- An outer or external angle.
- An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
- A movement or throw that overturns something.
- A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
Example: "to give a ball a cant"
- (coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
- A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
- A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
- To set (something) at an angle.
Example: "to cant a cask; to cant a ship"
- To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
Example: "to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football"
- To bevel an edge or corner.
- To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
- A parcel, a division.
- To divide or parcel out.
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