cant
suomi-englanti sanakirjacant englannista suomeksi
hurskastelu
vinous, kaltevuus
kallistua
piennar
jargon, slangi
muotipuhe
Substantiivi
cant englanniksi
(syn)
(ux)
1836, Three discourses preached before the Congregational Society in Watertown, page 65
- (quote)
A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
(RQ:Fielding Tom Jones)
(RQ:Sterne Tristram Shandy)
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(quote-journal)
A blazon of a of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, arms.
A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.
(quote-book)but numbers of these tenants or their descendants are now offering to sell their leases by cant,
(RQ:Jonson Staple of News) / Does he not ''cant? VVho here does vnderſtand him?
(quote-book)that uncouth affected garb of speech, or canting language rather, if I may so call it|chapter=The case of the liturgy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5uFhAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA56|volume=5
To speak in phrases.
To talk, beg, or preach in a singsong or whining fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
(RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Cupids Revenge)
(quote-book)
Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
(quote-book)''labouring'' with all their might for preventing the ''bishops'' from letting their revenues at a moderate half value(..) at the very instant, when they were every where ''canting'' their own land upon short leases, and sacrificing their ''oldest tenants for a penny an acre advance''.
(RQ:Jonson Coronation Triumph)
(RQ:Stevenson Treasure Island)
A corner (of a building).
An outer or external angle.
An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.(R:Knight AM)
1830, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia, volume 3, page 621
- It is not only of great service in keeping the boat in her due position on the sea, but also in creating a tendency immediately to recover from any sudden cant, or lurch, from a heavy wave; and it is besides beneficial in diminishing the violence of beating against the sides of the vessel which she may go to relieve.
A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.(R:Knight AM)
A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
An unfinished log after preliminary cutting.
To set (something) at an angle.
To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
''to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football''
To bevel an edge or corner.
(apocopic form of)
(circa), ''(w)'', Cotton Vespasian A iii, lines 8943-46:
- {{quote|enm|Iuus þat war sa cant and kene, / Quen þai had þis meracles sene, / þai drou it þen and mad a brig / Ouer a litel burn to lig
(alt form of)
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