canting

How to use canting in a sentence

• She complained that a canting waterman who was one of the brotherhood had held forth against her at a meeting.

  The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington Macaulay

• “A short half hour will bring down that canting sergeant and the guard upon us,” cried the leader.

  The Spy | J. Fenimore Cooper

• Reaching the rail by the life-boat davits, he saw at once that the ship was canting far over.

  Tom Slade with the Colors | Percy K. Fitzhugh

• When the Celestial Balances are canting, a man ought to exert himself.

  History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XIII. (of XXI.) | Thomas Carlyle

• I knew you for a stout seaman, you rogue, before you took to this long-shore canting.

  The Dealings of Captain Sharkey | A. Conan Doyle