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Canting

Canting \Cant"ing\, n. The use of cant; hypocrisy. [1913 Webster] ||

Canting

Canting \Cant"ing\, a. Speaking in a whining tone of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a canting tone. -- Cant"ing*ly, adv. -- Cant"ing*ness, n.

Canting arms, Canting heraldry (Her.), bearings in the nature of a rebus alluding to the name of the bearer. Thus, the Castletons bear three castles, and Pope Adrian IV. (Nicholas Breakspeare) bore a broken spear.

Canting

Cant \Cant\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Canted; p. pr. & vb. n. Canting.]

  1. To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.

  2. To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football.

  3. To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.

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canting

n. (alt form tjanting English) vb. (present participle of cant English)

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Canting

Canting (, IPA:, sometimes spelled with old Dutch orthography tjanting) is a pen-like tool used to apply liquid hot wax in the batik-making process, more precisely batik tulis (lit. "written batik"). Traditional canting consists of copper wax-container with small pipe spout and bamboo handle. Traditional canting is made of copper, bronze, zinc or iron material, however modern version might uses teflon.

Usage examples of "canting".

They employed emissaries to allay the ferment among the Cameronians, and disunite them from the cavaliers, by canting, praying, and demonstrating the absurdity, sinfulness, and danger of such a coalition.

The bow rears up, then slews at an angle, canting the boat over to port.

He was treasurer of the Adventurers, one of their most active and intelligent men, but proved a rascal and a canting hypocrite.

The recentness of the infalls and the absence of weather erosion that so quickly tames features on the surface combined to produce an insane jumble of precariously balanced slabs and boulders, the crazy canting of which seemed to refute gravity and create a carnival fun house effect in which water appears to run up hill, and what looks level is dangerously slanted.

It was set on a wooden post that the weather was rotting and the frost heave was canting forward.

Next came a sudden succession of noises, all loud, all different, distinguishable even though not two seconds elapsed between the first and the last - the shriek of a shell, a crash of timber aloft, a deep note as the main-topmast backstay parted, a thud against the hammock nettings beside Hornblower, and then a thump three yards from his feet, and there on the deck death, sizzling death, was rolling towards him and as the ship heaved death changed its course with the canting of the deck in a blundering curve as the belt round the shell deflected its roll.

Next came a sudden succession of noises, all loud, all different, distinguishable even though not two seconds elapsed between the first and the last the shriek of a shell, a crash of timber aloft, a deep note as the maintopmast backstay parted, a thud against the hammock nettings beside Hornblower, and then a thump three yards from his feet, and there on the deck death, sizzling death, was rolling towards him and as the ship heaved death changed its course with the canting of the deck in a blundering curve as the belt round the shell deflected its roll.

My Lord Protector feasts the Dutch ambassadors with music and with wine, my Lords Ireton and Fairfax and Hutchinson and the accursed lot of canting Puritans flaunt it in silks and satins, whilst I go about in a ragged doublet and with holes in my shoes.

Through foothills and craggy tors they rode, among wooded land canting this way or that and pitching up and down, and at times they had to dismount and walk, occasionally backtracking to find an easier way.

His speeches were long and loud: praises of Karhide, disparagements of Orgoreyn, vilifications of "disloyal factions," discussions of the "integrity of the Kingdom's borders," lectures in history and ethics and economics, all in a ranting, canting, emotional tone that went shrill with vituperation or adulation.

His speeches were long and loud: praises of Karhide, disparagements of Orgoreyn, vilifications of “disloyal factions,” discussions of the “integrity of the Kingdom’s borders,” lectures in history and ethics and economics, all in a ranting, canting, emotional tone that went shrill with vituperation or adulation.