Crossword clues for cantle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cantle \Can"tle\, n. [OF. cantel, chantel, corner, side, piece, F. chanteau a piece cut from a larger piece, dim. of OF. cant edge, corner. See 1st Cant.]
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A corner or edge of anything; a piece; a fragment; a part. ``In one cantle of his law.''
--Milton.Cuts me from the best of all my land A huge half moon, a monstrous cantle out.
--Shak. The upwardly projecting rear part of saddle, opposite to the pommel. [Written also cante.]
Cantle \Can"tle\, v. t. To cut in pieces; to cut out from. [Obs.] [Written also cantile.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "a part, a portion," also "a section cut out of anything" (mid-15c.), from Old North French cantel "corner, piece" (Old French chantel, Modern French chanteau), from Medieval Latin cantellus, diminutive of cantus "corner" (see cant (n.2)).
Wiktionary
n. (label en obsolete) A splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something. vb. 1 (context obsolete transitive English) To cut into pieces. 2 (context obsolete transitive English) To cut out from.
WordNet
n. the back of a saddle seat
Usage examples of "cantle".
In one smooth motion they drew their bows to their ears, let fly, and were slammed back into their saddles, whose high cantles absorbed the force of the recoil.
Whitetip, the long-fanged prairie cat, ranging out ahead of the column, to sniff out any ambuscades and farspeak to him of them, as well as on his own rare ability to foresense danger, Bili rode easily, slouched against the high cantle of his warkak.
Ehrik had swung up and was settled betwixt the high cantle and flaring pommel of the battle kak, Geros gingerly passed the feather-light girl back to him.
When Ehrik had swung up and was settled betwixt the high cantle and flaring pommel of the battle kak, Geros gingerly passed the feather-light girl back to him.
Bracing his buttocks against the high, strong cantle of his war kak and taking a fresh grip on the ash-wood shaft of his lance, Drehkos felt an arrow strike the back-plate of his cuirass and heard behind him the scream of a horse, saw the kahtahfrahktoee archersfortunately but a bare handful of the bastards!
Grabbing hold of the saddle horn, he swung up behind the cantle and settled into a semi-comfortable position on the leather skirt.
It had been amateurishly bandaged, and friction against the high cantle of his warkak had torn the cloths loose.
Bili laid his axe back across his pommel and relaxed against the high cantle of his warkak.
While Bernice tied the partially filled sack behind the cantle, Manuela fastened the rifle scabbard firmly under the left stirrup leather.
He called back to Travis for a length of rope, then tied the cantles of the two horses together.
And he stepped aside from the next galloping horse and, smiling a yellow-toothed grin, stabbed upward at the rider, the brutal spikes on the spear blade punching through the Baeran's stomach, knocking him back over the saddle cantle, driving the Ghul hindward and wrenching the weapon from the corpse-foe's grasp.
At the east end of the aisle was another altar, covered with a rich cloth beautifully figured, and on the wall over it was a deal of tabernacle work, in the midmost niche of it an image painted and gilt of a gay knight on horseback, cutting his own cloak in two with his sword to give a cantle of it to a half-naked beggar.
The younger of the two bowmen had unstrapped his crossbow and was fumbling for one of the bolts in the wooden quiver strapped to the cantle of his saddle.