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Cantled vs Castled - What's the difference?

cantled | castled |

As verbs the difference between cantled and castled

is that cantled is past tense of cantle while castled is past tense of castle.

cantled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (cantle)

    • cantle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something.
  • *:
  • *:him thought no worship to have a knight at such avail, he to be on horseback and he on foot, and so he alighted and dressed his shield unto Arthur. And there began a strong battle with many great strokes, and so hewed with their swords that the cantels flew in the fields, and much blood they bled both, that all the place there as they fought was overbled with blood,
  • *:• :
  • *::hym thought no worship to haue a knyght at suche auaille he to be on horsbak and he on foot and so he alyght & dressid his sheld vnto Arthur & ther beg? a strong bataille with many grete strokes / & soo hewe with her swerdes that the cantels flewe in the feldes / and moche blood they bledde bothe / that al the place there as they faught was ouer bledde with blood
  • *, Act III, Scene i:
  • *:See how this river comes me cranking in, / And cuts me from the best of all my land / A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax) (tr.), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), Book VI, xlviii:
  • *:Their armors forged were of metal frail; / On every side thereof huge cantles flies; / The land was strewed all with plate and mail, / That on the earth, on that their warm blood lies.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:In one cantle of his law.
  • The raised back of a saddle.
  • *1888 , (Rudyard Kipling), ‘The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly’, (Plain Tales from the Hills) , Folio 2005, p.93:
  • *:He recognised a horse when he saw one, and could do more than fill a cantle .
  • *1926 , , (Seven Pillars of Wisdom) :
  • *:Next day, he returned with a camel-saddle of equal beauty, the long brass horns of its cantles adorned with exquisite old Yemeni engraving.
  • *1994 , (Cormac McCarthy), :
  • *:The traps were packed in the splitwillow basket that his father wore with the shoulderstraps loosed so that the bottom of the basket carried on the cantle of the saddle behind him.

    • Verb

    (cantl)
  • (obsolete) To cut into pieces.
  • (obsolete) To cut out from.

    • Anagrams

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    castled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (castle)

    • Anagrams

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    castle

    English

    (wikipedia castle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large building that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king.
  • (chess) An instance of castling.
  • (chess, informal) A rook; a chess piece shaped like a castle tower.
  • (obsolete) A close helmet.
  • * 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , p. 12,
    • The castle was perhaps a figurative name for a close headpiece deduced from its enclosing and defending the head, as a castle did the whole body; or a corruption from the Old French word casquetel , a small or light helmet.
  • (dated) Any strong, imposing, and stately mansion.
  • (dated) A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back.

    • Usage notes

    For the chess piece, chess players prefer the term rook.

    Synonyms

    * (building) fortress, keep

    Derived terms

    * build castles in the air * castellated * castle in the air * ice castle * king of the castle * sandcastle

    See also

    * *

    Verb

    (castl)
  • (chess) To perform the move of castling.
  • (cricket) To bowl a batsman with a full-length ball or yorker such that the stumps are knocked over.
  • * 2009 , Lightning Bolt blows over Gayle , BBC Sport:
    • And the 23-year-old brought the crowd to their feet when he castled Gayle's stumps, signalling the direction of the pavilion to his friend for good measure.
  • * 2011 , Firdose Moonda, A day for missed hat-tricks , ESPNcricinfo:
    • He bowled Vinay with a with a full, straight ball that castled off stump and then dished up a yorker that RP Singh backed away to and sent onto his stumps.

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