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Cantle   Listen
noun
Cantle  n.  
1.
A corner or edge of anything; a piece; a fragment; a part. "In one cantle of his law." "Cuts me from the best of all my land A huge half moon, a monstrous cantle out."
2.
The upwardly projecting rear part of saddle, opposite to the pommel. (Written also cante)





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"Cantle" Quotes from Famous Books



... a hand briefly upon the cantle while he told the cook laughingly to go to the hot place, and then settled himself to the pace that matched the leaping blood of him. That pace soon discouraged the others and left them jogging leisurely a mile or two in the ...
— The Long Shadow • B. M. Bower
... that cavalry saddle of my father's, with the high cantle and pommel, and the rolls for the knees. It's like an armchair, and if one can't stick on on that, one ...
— With Lee in Virginia - A Story of the American Civil War • G. A. Henty
... cover and they felt themselves drawing within dangerous range than, fan-like, they opened out to right and left, and, yelling still like fiends, veered in wide circle from their line of attack, and ducking over their ponies' shoulders, clinging with one leg to the upright part of the cantle, they seemed to invite the fire of their white foe—and got it. A daring fellow in the lead came streaking slantwise across the front, as though aiming to pick up the comrade lurking in the dip of the prairie-like slope, ...
— Warrior Gap - A Story of the Sioux Outbreak of '68. • Charles King
... her saddle, dwarfing the shaggy pony. She wore her grey wool cap, overcoat, and boots. Pistols bulged in the saddle holsters; sacks of grain and a bag of camp tins lay across pommel and cantle. ...
— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers


Words linked to "Cantle" :   backrest, saddle


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