Canter



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. / n. ( 马) 普通速度跑
• ［英］ v. / n. ( 马) 普通速度跑 ( slow gallop)

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Date: 1609
• one who uses cant: as
  • a. beggar, vagabond
  • b. a user of professional or religious cant

II. verb

• Etymology: short for obsolete canterbury, noun (canter), from Canterbury, England; from the supposed gait of pilgrims riding to Canterbury
• Date: 1706
• intransitive verb
  • 1. to move at or as if at a canter ; lope
  • 2. to ride a horse at a canter
• transitive verb
  • to cause to go at a canter

III. noun

• Date: 1755
• 1. a 3-beat gait resembling but smoother and slower than the gallop
• 2. a ride at a canter

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