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Cantering

Canter \Can"ter\ (k[a^]n"t[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cantered (k[a^]n"t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cantering.] To move in a canter.

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cantering

n. Movement at a canter. vb. (present participle of canter English)

WordNet
cantering

adj. riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop; "the cantering soldiers"

Usage examples of "cantering".

The cheers continued as The Bull circled, his fluffy noseband like a blob of shaving cream, cantering along on his strong little legs, bottom lip flapping, ears waggling, taking in the applause.

They paused at the sight of Isa Lovell, not a day over six, cantering Macaulay round the practice ring.

There were clowns, little dogs with ruffs, a ring master and even a ballerina in a pink tutu, who slotted into a cantering horse with a pink plume.

So Florian was surprised when, six or seven miles before they got there, Fitz came cantering up to the rockaway.

The horse bearing the number 1 drew ahead of the others, number 2 moved up, and so on—until the horses composed a complete circle, 1 to 14, cantering around and around their master, and looking properly proud of themselves.

It went on and on, as she spun again, dropped to straddle the cantering horse, flung herself full length along its back, her arms around its neck, and she rode that way, rubbing herself upon it, still uttering that exuberant cry of bliss.

Clover Lee rode in on the cantering Bubbles, this time appearing first in a costume of red, white and blue, with the Phrygian cap of Liberté on her head—"la belle France!

From the arena's back door entered just another equestrienne, a rather brassily blonde woman balanced on one foot on a cantering horse.

He'd liked to have captured that moment-the gorgeous filly cantering gracefully in a circle, while green hills rolled up to a blue sky.

Suddenly they were all in motion, cantering in a large circle as if to show off their paces.

Belisarius could see large contingents of them cantering across the small valley below the pass, going to reinforce Sanga.

A moment later, the youth was on his horse and cantering toward the Rajput camp a short distance away.

Whickers of alarm and the swift-fading rumble of cantering hoofs filled the night.

Crystalline states of cataplexy were exercised away under cantering hoofs.

Here are no canterings upon moonlit heaths, no merrymakings in the snuggest of all possible caverns, none of the attractions of dress, no embroidery, no lace, no jack-boots, no crimson coats and ruffles, none of the dash and freedom with which "the road" has been, time out of mind, invested.