Definition of Canting. Meaning of Canting. Synonyms of Canting

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Definition of Canting

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.
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
Canting Cant"ing, n. The use of cant; hypocrisy.

Meaning of Canting from wikipedia

- Canting (IPA: t͡ʃɑnʈɪŋ, VOS Spelling: tjanting, Javanese: ꦕꦤ꧀ꦛꦶꦁ, romanized: Canting) is a pen-like tool used to apply liquid hot wax (malam) in the batik-making...
- Look up cant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cant, CANT, canting, or canted may refer to: Cant (language), a secret language Beurla Reagaird, a language...
- of his work included a canting dictionary. Such dictionaries, often based on Harman's, remained po****r, including The Canting Academy, or Devils Cabinet...
- Anachronism heralds is the pun, "Heralds don't pun; they cant." A famous example of canting arms are those of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's paternal...
- A canting keel is a form of sailing ballast, suspended from a rigid canting strut beneath the boat, which can be swung to windward of a boat under sail...
- spin canting, a phenomenon through which spins are tilted by a small angle about their axis rather than being exactly co-parallel. Spin canting is due...
- Cantal (French pronunciation: [kɑ̃tal] ; Occitan: Cantal or Cantau) is a rural department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France, with its prefecture...
- The Mounts of Cantal (or Volcanoes of Cantal; French: Monts du Cantal [mɔ̃ dy kɑ̃tal]) are a mountainous m****if in the mid-west of the M****if Central...
- A cant in architecture is an angled (oblique-angled) line or surface that cuts off a corner. Something with a cant is canted. Canted facades are a typical...
- Cantal cheese is an uncooked firm cheese produced in the Auvergne region of central France: more particularly in the département of Cantal (named after...