Cantering
[kæntərɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop; 'the cantering soldiers' .
Edited by Craig--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Canter
Editor: Nolan
Examples
- At the same instant an empty dog-cart, the horse cantering, the reins trailing, appeared round the curve of the road and rattled swiftly towards us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- So we mounted the horses and rode grimly on toward Magdala, cantering along in the edge of the water for want of the means of passing over it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If you set him cantering, he goes on like twenty sawyers. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I saw you on Saturday cantering over the hill on a nag not worthy of you. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- True; which, however, is no guarantee that she is not at this moment cantering over Rushedge. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Other horses, ridden by other small boys, arrive from time to time, awaiting their masters, who will come cantering on anon. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Editor: Nolan