Chanter vs Canter - What's the difference?
chanter | canter |
One who chants or sings
A priest who sings in a chantry
The pipe of a bagpipe on which the melody is played
The hedge sparrow.
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
As nouns the difference between chanter and canter
is that chanter is one who chants or sings while canter is 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 or canter can be one who cants or whines; a beggar.As a verb canter is
to move at such pace.chanter
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Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----canter
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(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.