Word Meanings - CANTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

chanteau a piece cut from a larger piece, dim. of OF. cant edge, 1. 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.

Additional info about word: CANTLE

chanteau a piece cut from a larger piece, dim. of OF. cant edge, 1. 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. 2. The upwardly projecting rear part of saddle, opposite to the pommel.

Related words: (words related to CANTLE)

• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• MONSTROUS
  1. Marvelous; strange. 2. Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth. Locke. He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love ... is unnatural
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• PIECEMEAL
  1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
• FRAGMENTIST
  A writer of fragments; as, the fragmentist of Wolfenbüttel.
• FRAGMENTED
  Broken into fragments.
• CORNERCAP
  The chief ornament. Thou makest the triumviry the cornercap of society. Shak.
• PIECELESS
  Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
• CANTLE
  chanteau a piece cut from a larger piece, dim. of OF. cant edge, 1. 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.
• FRAGMENTARINESS
  The quality or property of being in fragnebts, or broken pieces, incompleteness; want of continuity. G. Eliot.
• CANTLET
  A piece; a fragment; a corner. Dryden.
• PIECELY
  In pieces; piecemeal.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• CORNERWISE
  With the corner in front; diagonally; not square.
• MONSTROUSLY
  In a monstrous manner; unnaturally; extraordinarily; as, monstrously wicked. "Who with his wife is monstrously in love." Dryden.
• FRAGMENTARY
  Composed of the fragments of other rocks. (more info) 1. Composed of fragments, or broken pieces; disconnected; not complete or entire. Donne.
• CORNER
  1. The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal. 2. The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner. 3. An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the
• PIECENER
  1. One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills. 2. Same as Piecer, 2.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• THREE-CORNERED
  Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem. (more info) 1. Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
• SCANTLE
  To be deficient; to fail. Drayton.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• SCORNER
  One who scorns; a despiser; a contemner; specifically, a scoffer at religion. "Great scorners of death." Spenser. Superly he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly. Prov. iii. 34.
• FOUR-CORNERED
  Having four corners or angles.
• BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
  A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.
• TIMEPIECE
  A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
• CHIMNEY-PIECE
  A decorative construction around the opning of a fireplace.
• SEAPIECE
  A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture. Addison.
• SIDEPIECE
  The jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window.
• APIECES
  In pieces or to pieces. "Being torn apieces." Shak.