cantle

Etymology
From, from , (Modern 🇨🇬, Bourguignon ), from , diminutive of. Compare (Etymology 3).

Noun

 * 1)  A splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something.
 * , Act III, Scene i:
 * See how this river comes me cranking in, / And cuts me from the best of all my land / A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.
 * 1) * 1600, (tr.), The  of, Book VI, xlviii:
 * Their armors forged were of metal frail; / On every side thereof huge cantles flies; / The land was strewed all with plate and mail, / That on the earth, on that their warm blood lies.
 * 1) The raised back of a saddle.
 * 2)  The top of the head.
 * 3)  On many styles of sporran, a metal arc along the top of the pouch, usually fronting the clasp.
 * 1)  The top of the head.
 * 2)  On many styles of sporran, a metal arc along the top of the pouch, usually fronting the clasp.
 * 1)  The top of the head.
 * 2)  On many styles of sporran, a metal arc along the top of the pouch, usually fronting the clasp.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Russian: ,


 * Bulgarian: заден лък
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: takakaari
 * French:
 * German: Sattelbausch, Sattelwulst
 * Persian:
 * Russian: за́дняя лука́
 * Swedish: bakbom
 * Turkish:

Verb

 * 1)  To cut into pieces.
 * 2)  To cut out from.