Cant

Meaning of Cant

noun
  1. An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
    He had the look of a prince, but the cant of a fishmonger.
  2. A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
  3. A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
  4. Empty, hypocritical talk.
    People claim to care about the poor of Africa, but it is largely cant.
  5. Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
  6. A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
  7. A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.
verb
  1. To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
  2. To speak in set phrases.
  3. To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
  4. Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
  5. To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.
noun
  1. Side, edge, corner, niche.
    Under the cant of a hill.
  2. Slope, the angle at which something is set.
  3. A corner (of a building).
  4. An outer or external angle.
  5. An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
  6. A movement or throw that overturns something.
  7. A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
    to give a ball a cant
  8. (coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
  9. A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
  10. A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
verb
  1. To set (something) at an angle.
    to cant a cask; to cant a ship
  2. To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
    to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football
  3. To bevel an edge or corner.
  4. To overturn so that the contents are emptied.

noun

A parcel, a division.

verb

To divide or parcel out.

adjective

Lively, lusty.

Information about Cant

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Hyphenation of Cant

Cant

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • Cant is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Cant synonyms

Meaning buzzword:

buzzword

Meaning bank:

bank, camber

Meaning slang:

slang, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular

Meaning bevel:

bevel, chamfer

Meaning cant over:

tilt, slant, pitch

Meaning :

corner, slope

Words that rhyme with Cant

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