CANTER

I. noun Date: 1609 one who uses cant: as, beggar , vagabond , a user of professional or religious cant, II. verb Etymology: short for obsolete ~bury, noun (~), from Canterbury, England; from the supposed gait of pilgrims riding to Canterbury Date: 1706 intransitive verb to move at or as if at a ~ ; lope , to ride a horse at a ~, transitive verb to cause to go at a ~, III. noun Date: 1755 a 3-beat gait resembling but smoother and slower than the gallop, a ride at a ~