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CANTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does canted mean?
• CANTED (adjective)
The adjective CANTED has 1 sense:
1. departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal
Familiarity information: CANTED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal
Synonyms:
atilt; canted; leaning; tilted; tipped
Context example:
the headstones were tilted
Similar:
inclined (at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position)
Context examples
Of course, when the schooner canted over, the boom had swung out-board, and the cap of it and a foot or two of sail hung even under water.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Well, while things stood thus, suddenly the HISPANIOLA struck, staggered, ground for an instant in the sand, and then, swift as a blow, canted over to the port side till the deck stood at an angle of forty-five degrees and about a puncheon of water splashed into the scupper holes and lay, in a pool, between the deck and bulwark.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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