To put or set at an angle; tilt or move from a horizontal line: as, to cant or cant up a plank; to cant over a pail or cask.
Nautical, to turn (something) so that it is no longer fair and square; give (a ship) an inclination to one side, as in preparing her to be careened.
To set upon edge, as a stone.
To throw with a sudden jerk; toss: as, to cant a ball.
To cut off an angle of, as of a square piece of timber.
To tilt or incline; have a slant.
To speak with a whining voice or in an affected or assumed tone; assume a particular tone and manner of speaking for the purpose of exciting compassion, as in begging; hence, to beg.
To make pharisaical, hypocritical, or whining pretensions to goodness; affect piety without sincerity; sham holiness.
To talk in a, certain special jargon; use the words and phraseology peculiar to a particular sect, party, profession, and the like.
To use as a conventional phraseology or jargon.
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Something given in charity.
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A corner; an angle; a niche.
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The corner of a field.
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An external or salient angle: as, a six-canted bolt, that is, one of six cants, or of which the head has six angles.
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One of the segments forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
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A ship's timber, near the bow or stern, lying obliquely to the line of the keel.
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A piece of wood which supports the bulkheads on a vessel's deck.
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A log that has received two side cuts in a sawmill and is ready for the next cut.
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An inclination from a horizontal line; a sloping, slanting, or tilted position.
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A toss, thrust, or push with a sudden jerk: as, to give a ball a cant.
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In whale-fishing, a cut in a whale between the neck and fins.
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An auction; sale by auction. Grose.
Bold; strong; hearty; lusty. Now usually canty (which see).
To sell by auction.
To enhance or increase, as by competitive bidding at an auction.
To recover or mend; grow strong.
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An oblique line which cuts off a corner of a rectangle; an oblique side of a polygon; an oblique plane which cuts off the corner of a cuboid; an oblique face of a crystal; a slanting face of a bank.
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A sudden movement, as on board ship, resulting in a tilting up.
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One of the pieces which form the ends of the buckets on a water-wheel.
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A whining or singing manner of speech; specifically, the whining speech of beggars, as in asking alms.