canter2 (kanter)

[ Jugglers and gypsies, all the sorts of canters , and colonies of beggars. B. Jonson. 2. One who talks cant, in any sense of the word; especially, a canting preacher. You are the second part of the society of canters , out church-robbers of Christen dom. laws to order and discipline, and the only privileged B. Jonson , Bartholomew Fair, v. 2. On Whit sunday I went to the church (weh is a very faire one), and heard one of the canters , who dismi 'd the a embly rudely and without any ble ing. Evelyn , Diary, June 4, 1652. canter3 (kan'ter), n. [ cant4 , v., + -er1.] One who bids at an auction. See extract. A cla of men called canters , who were accustomed to bid for the tithe of their neighbours' land, and who by White boy terrorism were almost extirpated from Munster. Lecky , Eng. in 18th Cent., xvi.