different between hantle vs cantle

English

Alternative forms

• hantel, hauntle, hontle, hancle, hankle
• hantill (Scotland)

Etymology

Of obscure origin. Perhaps from Middle English *antel, *antæl, from Old English *antæl, *andtæl, equivalent to and- + tale (“number”); or more likely of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish antal, Danish antal (“a number, multitude”), Dutch aantal (“a number, a great many”), and German Anzahl (“a number, quantity, multitude”). The addition of initial h is believed to be due to influence from Middle English handfull (“handful”).

Noun

hantle (plural hantles)

1. (Scotland, northern Britain) A considerable number or quantity; a great many; a great deal.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 15:

     An Irish creature, Erbert Ellison was the name, ran the place for the trustees, he said, but if you might believe all the stories you heard he ran a hantle more silver into his own pouch than he ran into theirs.

Anagrams

• Elnath, hantel, lathen, thenal

English

Etymology

From Middle English cantle, cantel, from Old Northern French cantel, Old French chantel (Modern French chanteau, Bourguignon chainteâ), from Medieval Latin cantellus, diminutive of Latin cantus (“corner”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kant?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?kænt?l/

Noun

cantle (plural cantles)

1. (obsolete) 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.

   • 1600, Edward Fairfax (tr.), The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, 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.
2. The raised back of a saddle.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p.93:

     He recognised a horse when he saw one, and could do more than fill a cantle.
3. (Scotland) The top of the head.
4. (Scotland) On many styles of sporran, a metal arc along the top of the pouch, usually fronting the clasp.

Translations

Verb

cantle (third-person singular simple present cantles, present participle cantling, simple past and past participle cantled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cut into pieces.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To cut out from.

Anagrams

• Lancet, cantel, cental, lancet