English Dictionary

cant

IPA（発音記号）

/kænt/

名詞

廃用

(obsolete) Side, edge, corner, niche. / Slope, the angle at which something is set. / A corner (of a building). / An outer or external angle.

日本語の意味

側面、縁、辺 / 隅、角（建物の外角を含む） / ニッチ（凹部） / 傾斜、斜面、設定された角度

The carpenter found a small cant between two beams and fitted a carved panel into it.

大工は二本の梁の間に小さなくぼみを見つけ、彫刻された板をはめ込んだ。

意味（1）

(obsolete) Side, edge, corner, niche.

Under the cant of a hill.

意味（2）

Slope, the angle at which something is set.

Owing to the cant of the vessel, the masts hung far out over the water, and from my perch on the cross-trees I had nothing below me but the surface of the bay.

意味（3）

A corner (of a building).

意味（4）

An outer or external angle.

意味（5）

An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.

意味（6）

A movement or throw that overturns something.

It is not only of great service in keeping the boat in her due position on the sea, but also in creating a tendency immediately to recover from any sudden cant, or lurch, from a heavy wave; and it is besides beneficial in diminishing the violence of beating against the sides of the vessel which she may go to relieve.

意味（7）

A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.

to give a ball a cant

意味（8）

(coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.

意味（9）

A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.

意味（10）

(nautical) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.

意味（11）

(lumbering) An unfinished log after preliminary cutting.

cants （ plural ）