Cant

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• cant

  1) An hypocrite, a double-tongue palavering fellow. See palaver. 2) To cant; to toss or throw: as,...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to cant

  To turn about; to turn over; a common use of the word, not mentioned by Johnson or Todd. It is, howe...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• cant

  1) strong, lusty : very cant, God yield you ; i. e. very strong and lusty, God reward you. Chesh. 2...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• cant

  A cut made in a whale between the neck and the fins, to which the cant-purchase is made fast, for tu...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Can't

  ·- A colloquial contraction for can not. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Cant hook

  ·- A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; — used for canting or turning over heavy ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• cant-hook

  A wooden lever, with an iron hook at one end, with which heavy articles of merchandise or timber are...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• cant, to

  To turn anything about, or so that it does not stand square. To diverge from a central right line. C...

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• cant-blocks

  The large purchase-blocks used by whalers to cant the whales round under the process of flensing. ...

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• cant-body

  An imaginary figure of that part of a ship's body which forms the shape forward and aft, and whose p...

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• cant-falls

  See spike-tackle. ...

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• cant-hook

  A lever with a hook at one end for heavy articles. ...

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• cant-line

  Synonymous with girt-line, as to cant the top over the lowermast-head. ...

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• cant-purchase

  This is formed by a block suspended from the mainmast-head, and another block made fast to the cant ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• cant-ribbons

  Those ribbons that do not lie in a horizontal or level direction. ...

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• cant-rope

  See four-cant. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• cant-spar

  A hand-mast pole, fit for making small masts or yards, booms, &c. ...

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• cant-timbers

  They derive their name from being canted or raised obliquely from the keel. The upper ends of those ...

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• four-cant

  A rope composed of four strands. ...

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• can't come it

  is a vulgar expression for cannot do it. "You can't come it over me so," i. e. you cannot effect you...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• the crack, or all the crack. the fashionable theme, the go. the crack lay, of late is used, in the cant language, to signify the art and mystery of house-breaking.

  Crust, sea biscuit, or ammunition loaf; also the backside. Farting crackers; breeches. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose