cantle

suomi-englanti sanakirja

cantle englannista suomeksi

  1. takakaari

  1. Substantiivi

  2. säle, sirpale, viipale

  3. takakaari

  4. Verbi

cantle englanniksi

  1. A splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something.

  2. (RQ:Shakespeare_Henry_4-), Act III, Scene i:

  3. See how this river comes me cranking in, / And cuts me from the best of all my land / A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.
  4. 1600, (w) (tr.), The ''(w)'' of (w), Book VI, xlviii:

  5. Their armors forged were of metal frail; / On every side thereof huge cantles flies; / The land was strewed all with plate and mail, / That on the earth, on that their warm blood lies.
  6. (RQ:Milton Divorce)

  7. The raised back of a saddle.

  8. {{quote-book|en|year=1888|author=Rudyard Kipling|chapter=The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly|title=Plain Tales from the Hills|publisher=Folio|year_published=2005|page=93

  9. (quote-text)

  10. (quote-text)|passage=The traps were packed in the splitwillow basket that his father wore with the shoulderstraps loosed so that the bottom of the basket carried on the cantle of the saddle behind him.

  11. The top of the head.

  12. On many styles of sporran, a metal arc along the top of the pouch, usually fronting the clasp.

  13. To cut into pieces.

  14. To cut out from.