Cant
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Cant, CANT, canting, or canted may refer to:
Language
[edit]- Cant (language), a secret language
- Beurla Reagaird, a language of the Scottish Highland Travellers
- Scottish Cant, a language of the Scottish Lowland Travellers
- Shelta or the Cant, a language of the Irish Travellers
- Thieves' cant, a language of criminals
- Canting arms, heraldic puns on the bearer's name
- Can't, contraction of cannot
Other uses
[edit]- Cant (architecture), part of a facade
- CANT (aviation) (Cantieri Aeronautici e Navali Triestini), an aircraft manufacturer
- Cant (log), a log partially processed in a sawmill
- Cant (road/rail), an angle of a road or track
- Cant (shooting), referring to a gun being tilted around the longitudinal axis, rather than being horizontally levelled
- Cant (surname), a family name and persons with it
- Canting, a tool used in making batik
- Chris Taylor (Grizzly Bear musician), an American performer
- University of Canterbury, a New Zealand university which uses Cantuar or Cant as an abbreviation for their name in post-nominal letters
See also
[edit]- CANT (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing Cant
- Canté, a commune in Ariège, France
- Canter (disambiguation)
- Canticle
- Kant (disambiguation)
- Kante (disambiguation)