Canter vs Canker - What's the difference?
canter | canker |
A gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop, consisting of three beats and a "suspension" phase, where there are no feet on the ground. Also describing this gait on other four legged animals.
A ride on a horse at such speed.
One who cants or whines; a beggar.
One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.
* Macaulay
(botany) A plant disease marked by gradual decay.
A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.
Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.
* Temple
A kind of wild rose; the dog rose.
* Shakespeare
An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths. Usually resulting from neglected thrush.
An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae .
An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; usually resulting from neglected thrush.
To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
* 1849 , , In Memoriam , 26:
To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
In intransitive terms the difference between canter and canker
is that canter is to cause to move at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter while canker is to waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.canter
English
(wikipedia canter)Etymology 1
Short for Canterbury pace , from the supposed easy pace of medieval pilgrims to Canterbury.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* in a canter, at a canterEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- The day when he was a canter and a rebel.
Anagrams
* ---- ==Jèrriais==canker
English
Noun
- the cankers of envy and faction
- To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose, / And plant this thorn, this canker , Bolingbroke.
Synonyms
* water canker, canker of the mouth, noma * (bird disease) avian trichomoniasis, roup * (hawk disease) frounceVerb
(en verb)- Still onward winds the dreary way; / I with it; for I long to prove / No lapse of moons can canker Love, / Whatever fickle tongues may say.