cantering

English

Verb

cantering

1. present participle and gerund of canter
   • 2024 March 20, Chris Howe, “High speed underneath the Chilterns...”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 33:

     The master plan for the site includes 3.3km of new surfaced and unsurfaced walking routes, more than 1km of new bridleways and cantering routes, and retention of the 2.3km Old Shire Lane bridleway.

Noun

cantering (plural canterings)

1. Movement at a canter.
   • 1837-39, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

     Here are no canterings upon moonlit heaths, no merry-makings in the snuggest of all possible caverns, none of the attractions of dress, no embroidery, no lace, no jack-boots, no crimson coats and ruffles, none of the dash and freedom with which "the road" has been, time out of mind, invested.

Anagrams

• nectaring, recanting, trangenic