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cant

2[kant]
–noun
1. a salient angle.
2. a sudden movement that tilts or overturns a thing.
3. a slanting or tilted position.
4. an oblique line or surface, as one formed by cutting off the corner of a square of cube.
5. an oblique or slanting face of anything.
6. Civil Engineering. bank 1 (def. 6).
7. a sudden pitch or toss.
8. Also called flitch. a partly trimmed log.
–adjective
9. oblique or slanting.
–verb (used with object)
10. to bevel; form an oblique surface upon.
11. to put in an oblique position; tilt; tip.
12. to throw with a sudden jerk.
–verb (used without object)
13. to take or have an inclined position; tilt; turn.

Origin:
1325–75; ME: side, border < AF cant, OF chant < a Rom base *cantu(m) with the related senses “rim, border” and “angle corner,” prob. < Celtic; cf. L cant(h)us iron tire (< Celtic), Welsh cant periphery, rim, felloe; prob. not akin to Gk kanthós corner of the eye; cf. canteen, cantle, canton


cantic, adjective

cant

3[kahnt]
–adjective Scot. and North England.
hearty; merry.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME < LG kant merry, bold
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Word Origin & History

cant  (2)
"slant," c.1375, Scottish, from O.N.Fr. cant (perhaps via M.L.G. kante or M.Du. kant), from V.L. *canthus, from L. cantus "iron tire of a wheel," possibly from a Celt. word meaning "rim of wheel, edge," from PIE base *kantho- "corner, bend" (cf. Gk. kanthos "corner of the eye").
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: cant
Pronunciation: 'kant
Function: noun
: an oblique or slanting surface
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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