canter
kan ter
- n a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop
- v ride at a canter
The men cantered away - v go at a canter, of horses
- v ride at a cantering pace
He cantered the horse across the meadow
- A horse's three conventional speeds forwardthe walk, trot and canterwere either too slow, too fast or too uncomfortable for some early American connoisseurs.
- The words canter, crack and crawl were rejected.
- Increasingly, families are discovering that a brisk morning canter is not only fine exercise; it also opens up new countryeven in relatively built-up areas.