cant
verb/kænt/
/kænt/
[intransitive, transitive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they cant | /kænt/ /kænt/ |
| he / she / it cants | /kænts/ /kænts/ |
| past simple canted | /ˈkæntɪd/ /ˈkæntɪd/ |
| past participle canted | /ˈkæntɪd/ /ˈkæntɪd/ |
| -ing form canting | /ˈkæntɪŋ/ /ˈkæntɪŋ/ |
- cant (something) to be in a sloping position; to put something into a sloping positionWord Originverb Middle English (denoting an edge or brink): from Middle Low German kant, kante, Middle Dutch cant ‘point, side, edge’, based on a Romance word related to medieval Latin cantus ‘corner, side’.
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