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Nantle vs Cantle - What's the difference?

nantle | cantle |

In obsolete terms the difference between nantle and cantle

is that nantle is to fondle or caress while cantle is a splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something.

As a noun cantle is

a splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something.

nantle

English

Verb

to nantle
  • (obsolete) to fondle or caress
  • (dialect, Yorkshire) to fidget or rearrange

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    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.

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