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can·ter·bur·y

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–noun, plural -buries.

1.	a stand having sections for holding magazines, sheet music, or loose papers.

2.	a supper tray with partitions for cutlery and plates.

[Origin: 1840–50; after Canterbury, England

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Can·ter·bur·y

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–noun

1.	a city in E Kent, in SE England: cathedral; early ecclesiastical center of England. 115,600.

2.	a municipality in E New South Wales, in SE Australia: a part of Sydney. 115,100.

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Can·ter·bu·ri·an

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A city of southeast Australia, a suburb of Sydney. Population: 130,000.
A borough of southeast England on the Stour River east-southeast of London. Canterbury Cathedral (11th-16th century) is the seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Communion. Built on the site of an abbey founded by Saint Augustine c. 600, it was the scene of the murder of Thomas à Becket (1170). Population: 43,500.

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canterbury
noun
a town in Kent in southeastern England; site of the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was martyred in 1170; seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church

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Canterbury, CT Zip code(s): 06331

Canterbury, NH Zip code(s): 03224

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Canterbury

Can"ter\, n. [An abbreviation of Caner bury. See Canterbury gallop, under Canterbury.]

1. A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.

Note: The canter is a thoroughly artificial pace, at first extremely tiring to the horse, and generally only to be produced in him by the restraint of a powerful bit, which compels him to throw a great part of his weight on his haunches . . . There is so great a variety in the mode adopted by different horses for performing the canter, that no single description will suffice, nor indeed is it easy . . . to define any one of them. --J. H. Walsh.

2. A rapid or easy passing over.

A rapid canter in the Times over all the topics. --Sir J. Stephen.

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