We cantered our horses for several miles. 我们骑著马慢跑了几英里.
A natural three-beat gait of a horse, faster than a canter, in which all four feet are off the ground at the same time during each stride. 疾驰,飞奔马的自然的三步跑法,比慢跑快,在每次迈步时马的四蹄都同时离开地面
He slowed his horse to a canter. 他放慢马速使之慢跑。
canter canter
[ noun ]
a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop
<noun.act> [ verb ]
ride at a canter
<verb.motion> The men cantered away
go at a canter, of horses
<verb.motion>
ride at a cantering pace
<verb.motion> He cantered the horse across the meadow
Canter \Cant"er\, n. 1. One who cants or whines; a beggar.
2. One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.
The day when he was a canter and a rebel. --Macaulay.
Canter \Can"ter\ (k[a^]n"t[~e]r), n. [An abbreviation of Canterbury. See Canterbury gallop, under {Canterbury}.] 1. A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.
Note: The canter is a thoroughly artificial pace, at first extremely tiring to the horse, and generally only to be produced in him by the restraint of a powerful bit, which compels him to throw a great part of his weight on his haunches . . . There is so great a variety in the mode adopted by different horses for performing the canter, that no single description will suffice, nor indeed is it easy . . . to define any one of them. --J. H. Walsh.
2. A rapid or easy passing over.
A rapid canter in the Times over all the topics. --Sir J. Stephen.
Canter \Can"ter\ (k[a^]n"t[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cantered} (k[a^]n"t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cantering}.] To move in a canter.
Canter \Can"ter\, v. t. To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.
As many as 20,000 visitors were expected to turn out in the town of 3,200 for Courir du Mardi Gras, or The Running of the Mardi Gras, in which masked horsemen canter from house to house soliciting the makings of a giant gumbo.