canter

noun

1. A gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop, consisting of three beats and a "suspension" phase, where there are no feet on the ground. Also describing this gait on other four-legged animals.
2. A ride on a horse at such speed.
3. One who cants or whines; a beggar.
4. One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.

   “The days when he was a canter and a rebel.”

   “From lawn-sleeved ranters to kerbstone canters, From bishops to Army lasses.”

verb

1. (intransitive)To move at such pace.
2. (transitive)To cause to move at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.

name

1. A surname.