cant term
1Cant (architecture) — Cant (or Canted) is the architectural term describing part, or segment, of a facade which is at an angle to another part of the same facade. The angle breaking the facade is less than a right angle thus enabling a canted facade to be viewed as,… …
2Cant (language) — This article is about the linguistic concept of a cant. For the Irish Cant (also known as Shelta/Gammon), see Shelta. A Cant (or crypolect) is the jargon or argot of a group, often implying its use to exclude or mislead people outside the… …
3Cant deficiency — The term cant deficiency is defined in the context of travel of a rail vehicle at constant speed on a constant radius curve. Cant itself is a British synonym for the superelevation of the curve, that is, the elevation of the outside rail minus… …
4cant dog — noun a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs • Syn: ↑peavey, ↑peavy, ↑dog hook • Hypernyms: ↑lever • Hyponyms: ↑cant hook * * * noun …
5Cant Jargon — , CANTING GREW Some people believe that the word cant is eponymous for Andrew Cant (1590 1663), a Presbyterian minister in Aberdeen, Scotland. The Reverend s speech was hard to understand because of the dialect he used, The Spectator… …
6Cant frames — Frame Frame, n. 1. Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or metal, that gives to a building, vessel, etc., its model and strength; the skeleton of a… …
7Cant — The term used for the language used by Travelers in Ireland and Scotland. These are two distinct varieties of English. The syntax and grammar are English, but the vocabulary comes from many sources, including the medieval vocabularies known as …
8cant dog — noun another term for cant hook …
9The Night Before Larry Was Stretched — is an Irish execution ballad written in the Newgate cant.AuthorThe ballad is estimated to have been written around 1816. Will (Hurlfoot) Maher, a shoemaker from Waterford, wrote the song, though Dr. Robert Burrowes, the Dean of St. Finbar’s Cork …
10Alsatia — See also: Alsace Alsatia in London, was the name given to an area lying north of the River Thames covered by the Whitefriars monastery, to the south of the west end of Fleet Street and adjacent to the Temple. Between the fifteenth and seventeenth …
