CANTERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cantering mean? 

• CANTERING (adjective)
  The adjective CANTERING has 1 sense:

1. riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop

  Familiarity information: CANTERING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANTERING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Context example:

the cantering soldiers

Participle:

canter (ride at a canter)

 Context examples 

At the sight of their returning comrades there was a shout of welcome, and a horseman, who had been exercising his charger behind the camp, came cantering down to them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the same instant an empty dog-cart, the horse cantering, the reins trailing, appeared round the curve of the road and rattled swiftly towards us.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)