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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cant \Cant\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Canted}; p. pr & vb n. {Canting}.] 1. To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over to tip upon the edge; as to cant a cask; to cant a ship. 2. To give a sudden turn or new direction to as to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football. 3. To cut off an angle from as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Canted \Cant"ed\, a. [From 2d {Cant}.] 1. Having angles; as a six canted bolt head; a canted window. {Canted column} (Arch.), a column polygonal in plan 2. Inclined at an angle to something else; tipped; sloping. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: canted adj : departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal; "the leaning tower of Pisa"; "the headstones were tilted" [syn: {atilt}, {leaning}, {tilted}, {tipped}]
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