what is the definition of “canter”?
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Do you mean then pace of a horse quicker than a trot and slower than a gallop? It has a slightly different pattern of good beats. Supposedly it derives from “Canterbury Pace” from the UK city in Kent. Pilgrims going to the cathedral shrine of Thomas Beckett.
By extension, it applies to a jogging pace in running and more abstract uses like cantering through a subject.
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