Crossword-Solution: CANT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cant | n. | A corner; angle; niche. |
| Cant | n. | An outer or external angle. |
| Cant | n. | An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl. |
| Cant | n. | A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give; as, to give a ball a cant. |
| Cant | n. | A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask. |
| Cant | n. | A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel. |
| Cant | n. | A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads. |
| Cant | v. t. | To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship. |
| Cant | v. t. | To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football. |
| Cant | v. t. | To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt. |
| Cant | n. | An affected, singsong mode of speaking. |
| Cant | n. | The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation. |
| Cant | n. | The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy. |
| Cant | n. | Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars. |
| Cant | a. | Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar. |
| Cant | v. i. | To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone. |
| Cant | v. i. | To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic. |
| Cant | v. i. | To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning. |
| Cant | n. | A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction. |
| Cant | v. t. | to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CANT | anagram | NACT |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
AONCER
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with CANT (5)
Barsad was not a Sheep of the Prisons.” Sheep was a cant word of the time for a spy, under the gaolers.
Her form, though not so correct as her sister’s, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise, she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.
Stand back! give place! - a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess.
There was I, sitting in that verandah, in as handsome a piece of scenery as you could find, a splendid sun, and a fine fresh healthy trade that stirred up a man’s blood like sea-bathing; and the whole thing was clean gone from me, and I was dreaming England, which is, after all, a nasty, cold, muddy hole, with not enough light to see to read by; and dreaming the looks of my public, by a cant of a broad high-road like an avenue, and with the sign on a green tree.
Words and music have lost each other and new and cant phrases of a dimly understood theology have displaced the older sentiment.
Quotes with CANT (3)
Haven't I? - he thought. Haven't I thought of it since the first time I saw you? Haven't I thought of nothing else for two years? ... He sat motionless, looking at her. He heard the words he had never allowed himself to form, the words he had felt, known, yet had not faced, had hoped to destroy by never letting them be said within his own mind. Now it was as sudden and shocking as if he were saying it to her ... Since the first time I saw you ... Nothing but your body, that m…
But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--
Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 385 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).