canting

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Cant \Cant\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Canted; p. pr. & vb. n. Canting.]

1.To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship. [1913 Webster]

2.To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football. [1913 Webster]

3.To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt. [1913 Webster]

Canting \Cant"ing\, n. The use of cant; hypocrisy. [1913 Webster]

Canting \Cant"ing\, a. Speaking in a whining tone of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a canting tone. -- Cant"ing*ly, adv. -- Cant"ing*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

Canting arms, Canting heraldry (Her.), bearings in the nature of a rebus alluding to the name of the bearer. Thus, the Castletons bear three castles, and Pope Adrian IV. (Nicholas Breakspeare) bore a broken spear. [1913 Webster]