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Cantering

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Adjective

1. cantering

riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop

Example Sentences:
'the cantering soldiers'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cantering

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noun
1. 
an easy three-beat gait of horses, etc, between a trot and a gallop in speed
2.  at a canter
verb
3. 
to move or cause to move at a canter

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Cantering

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noun
1. 
a smooth, easy pace like a moderate gallop
2. 
the rumbling sound of a cantering horse
verb intransitive, verb transitive
3. 
to ride or move at a canter

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Cantering

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n.
1. A smooth three-beat gait of a horse that is slower than a gallop but faster than a trot, in which the feet touch the ground in the three-beat sequence of near hind foot, off hind foot and near front foot, off front foot.
2. A ride on a horse moving with this gait.
v. can·tered, can·ter·ing, can·ters
v.intr.
To go or move at a canter.
v.tr.
To cause (a horse) to go at a canter.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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