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• noun
  1. An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
  2. A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
  3. A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
  4. Empty, hypocritical talk.
  5. Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
  6. A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
  7. A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.
  8. Side, edge, corner, niche.
  9. Slope, the angle at which something is set.
  10. A corner (of a building).
  11. An outer or external angle.
  12. An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
  13. A movement or throw that overturns something.
  14. A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
  15. (coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
  16. A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
  17. A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
  18. A parcel, a division.
• verb
  1. To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
  2. To speak in set phrases.
  3. To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
  4. Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
  5. To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.
  6. To set (something) at an angle.
  7. To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
  8. To bevel an edge or corner.
  9. To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
  10. To divide or parcel out.

• The politician's speech was full of empty cants that lacked real substance.
• Critics dismissed the preacher’s message as mere moral cants.
• The villagers grew tired of the same old cants repeated by officials.
• His writing cut through the usual cants and spoke plainly to the audience.
• She avoided the common cants of the genre to bring something fresh to her novel.

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