cantlet (kantlet)

[Dim. of cantle, n. Cf. scantlet.] A corner; piece; fragment; a cantle. Huge cantlets of his buckler strew the ground. Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Meta morph., xii. Thanks to his clasp-knife, he was able to appropriate a wing of fowl and a slice of ham; a cantlet of cold custard pudding he thought would harmonize with these articles. Charlotte Brontë , Shirley, xxxiii. cantling (kant'ling), n. of a painting or other representation, or of a flag. A square piece or canton of the fish Tuny salted and condited. Holland, Pliny, II. 434. canton1 (kant on), v. t. [= F. can tonner; from the noun.] 1. To divide into cantons or districts, as territory; divide into distinct portions; with out, to cut out and separate. They canton out to themselves a little Goshen in the intellectual world. Locke , Conduct of Understanding, §i. You shall hear how I have canton'd out the day. Mrs. Cent livre, Love at a Venture, i. 2. To allot separate quarters to the different divisions or parts (usually regiments) of: as, to canton an army or a detachment. [In this sense pronounced kan-ton' and kan-tön'.] The practice of cantoning a body of soldiers near the plain where the kings are elected, has been adopted by several foreign powers for near a century. A variant of canto . Write loyal cantons of contemned love, And sing them loud even in the dead of night. The lower course of bricks inclosing a brick- clamp. cantlyt, adv . [ cantly the knightes vpon, And the tyde men of Troy, with a tore steuyn, In hast for to hye to there hed prinse. with a beveled face.