cantletn.
/ˈkantlɪt/ A small cantle, a fragment.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > small piece
fingereOE
snedec1000
seed?a1200
morselc1300
bittlock?a1400
farthingc1405
spota1413
lipetc1430
offe?1440
drewc1450
remnantc1450
parcel1483
crap1520
flakec1525
patch1528
spark1548
a piece1559
sparklec1570
inch1573
nibbling?1577
scantling1585
scrat1593
mincing1598
scantle1598
halfpenny1600
quantity1600
nip1606
kantch1608
bit1609
catch1613
scripa1617
snap1616
sippeta1625
crumblet1634
scute1635
scantleta1642
snattock1654
cantlet1700
tab1729
pallion1738
smallness1818
knobble1823
wisp1836
1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Twelfth Bk. Metamorphoses in Fables 426 Huge Cantlets of his Buckler strew the Gronnd.
1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. i. i. 201 To spoil a waggon-load of ash-staves..And break a dozen fools' backs across their cantlets.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. x. 219 A cantlet of cold custard-pudding.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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