Canting - Law Dictionary Search Results
Cant hook
A wooden lever with a movable iron hook hear the end used for canting or turning over heavy logs etc
Snuffler
One who snuffles one who uses cant
Pettifogger
Pettifogger [fr. petit, Fr., little, and vogueur, a rower], a dishonest lawyer in a mean way of business, Cant. term.
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Lame duck
Lame duck, a cant term on the Stock Exchange meaning that a broker or jobber cannot fulfil his contracts; it is libellous,
Cantred, or Kantress
Cantred, or Kantress [fr. Cant, or cantre, Brit., a hundred, and tre, a town or village], a hundred Welsh
Bull
c. 59()] repealing it so far only as the same imposes the penalties or punishments therein mentioned. A cant term used in the Stock Exchange to denote one who has bought stocks or shares with the intention
Alsatia
Alsatia, formerly a cant name for Whitefriars, a district in London between the Thames and Fleet Street, and adjoining the Temple, which,
Henchman
An attendant a servant a follower Now chiefly used as a political cant term
Sea language
The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen sailors cant
Placket
A petticoat esp an under petticoat hence a cant term for a woman
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