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CantEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
As a German surname, variant of Kant.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗cantEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Latin cantō, probably via Old Northern French canter (“sing, tell”). Doublet of chant.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗cantEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English cant (“edge, brink”), from Middle Dutch cant (“point, side, edge”) (Modern Dutch kant (“side, edge”)), ultimately of Celtic or Latin origin. Related to Medieval Latin cantus (“corner, side”), from Latin canthus.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗cantEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Unknown, but compare Provençal cantel (“corner, piece”) or Old Northern French cantel (“piece broken off”). The verb is attested from the 15th century, and the noun from the 16th. See cantle, from which cant is possibly back-formed as if it contained the suffix -le.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗cantEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
From Middle English cant, kaunt, presumably from Middle Low German *kant, perhaps a slang word related to kant (“edge, rim”), from Medieval Latin canthus. Attested from the 13th or 14th century.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- CantEnglish · e-37683-4106
Cant, kant, v.i. to speak in a conventional manner: to use the language of thieves, &c.: to talk in an affectedly solemn or hypocritical way.—n. a hypocritical or affected style of speech: the language peculiar to a sect
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Cant, kant, n. an inclination from the level: a toss or jerk: a sloping or tilted position: one of the segments forming a side-piece in the head of a cask: a ship's timber lying obliquely to the line of the keel.—v.t. to
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Cant, kant, n. sale by auction.—v.t. to sell by auction. [O. Fr. encant, auction; der. uncertain, cf. Low L. incantāre, to put up to auction.]
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Cant, kant, adj. brisk: lively. [Scot.; der. unknown. See Canty.]
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