cantlet
(ˈkæntlɪt)
[f. cantle n. + -et1.]
A small cantle, a fragment.
| a 1700 Dryden Fab. Ovid's Met. xii. 180 Huge cantlets of his buckler strew the ground. 1848 Kingsley Saint's Trag. i. i. 201 To spoil a waggon-load of ash-staves..And break a dozen fools' backs across their cantlets. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley xxxiii, A cantlet of cold custard-pudding. |