Canter \Can"ter\ (k[a^]n"t[~e]r), n. [An abbreviation of
   Canterbury. See Canterbury gallop, under Canterbury.]
   1. A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.
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   Note: The canter is a thoroughly artificial pace, at first
         extremely tiring to the horse, and generally only to be
         produced in him by the restraint of a powerful bit,
         which compels him to throw a great part of his weight
         on his haunches . . . There is so great a variety in
         the mode adopted by different horses for performing the
         canter, that no single description will suffice, nor
         indeed is it easy . . . to define any one of them. --J.
         H. Walsh.
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   2. A rapid or easy passing over.
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            A rapid canter in the Times over all the topics.
                                                  --Sir J.
                                                  Stephen.
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	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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	Canter \Can"ter\, v. t.
   To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at
   a canter.
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	Canter \Cant"er\, n.
   1. One who cants or whines; a beggar.
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   2. One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one
      who uses canting language.
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            The day when he was a canter and a rebel.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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	canter
    n 1: a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop [syn:
         canter, lope]
    v 1: ride at a canter; "The men cantered away"
    2: go at a canter, of horses
    3: ride at a cantering pace; "He cantered the horse across the
       meadow"

	

	98 Moby Thesaurus words for "canter":
   Holy Willie, Joseph Surface, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Pharisee,
   Tartuffe, affecter, amble, bound, bum, burst, burst of speed,
   canting hypocrite, caracole, curvet, dash, dead run, derelict,
   dissembler, dissimulator, dogtrot, drifter, fair-weather friend,
   false friend, flank speed, flat-out speed, forced draft, formalist,
   fox-trot, frisk, full gallop, gallop, get, git, go on horseback,
   hack, hand gallop, headlong rush, heavy right foot, high lope,
   hightail, hobo, hop, hop along, hotfoot, hypocrite, jog trot, leap,
   lip server, lip worshiper, lope, make tracks, maximum speed,
   mealymouth, mount, open throttle, pace, pharisee, phony, piaffe,
   pietist, pious fraud, plunge, poser, prance, race, ranter,
   religionist, religious hypocrite, ride bareback, ride hard, run,
   rush, sanctimonious fraud, scamper, scud, scurry, scuttle,
   sniveler, snuffler, spiritual humbug, spring, sprint, spurt, step,
   step along, step lively, street arab, summer soldier, take horse,
   tittup, tramp, trip, trot, vag, vagrant, whited sepulcher,
   wide-open speed