Literary notes about Canted (AI summary)
The word "canted" in literature is often employed to describe something that is deliberately or incidentally tilted or inclined from the vertical. It can refer to physical angles—a ship leaning under the influence of wind and uneven ballast ([1], [2], [3]), an architectural element deliberately sloped for effect ([4], [5])—or to bodily gestures and expressions, such as a head tilted to one side in a moment of contemplation or defiance ([6], [7], [8]). In some contexts the term extends into the metaphorical, hinting at a deviation from convention or balance as a reflection of character or circumstance ([9], [10], [11]).
- She heads north, and is canted over to port with her port rail under water.
— from The Boys of '98 by James Otis - The Sea Spell had driven so hard and fast upon the shoal that she canted neither to port, or starboard.
— from Swept Out to Sea Or, Clint Webb Among the Whalers by W. Bert (Walter Bertram) Foster - The ship first canted over, her sails resting on the water, righted herself and then slowly disappeared.
— from Five Months on a German RaiderBeing the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf' by Frederic George Trayes - The upper bed is brought to an octagon by broaches of convex outline, and the upper edge is slightly canted.
— from Old Crosses and Lychgates by Aymer Vallance - It is octagonal in plan, the canted sides being carried on semi-circular arches thrown across the angles.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street - Then he canted his head across the counter and slid an epithet out of the side of his mouth.
— from Daisy Herself by Will E. Ingersoll - He merely canted his head, the better to look into the face of his travel mate.
— from Local Color by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - Think she'd like to go to Disneyworld and some of the other tourist traps?" Smiling, Mandi canted her head and said, "I really don't know.
— from An Encounter in Atlanta by Ed Howdershelt - The latter's shoulders were hunched with haste, his hat was pressed deep and irregularly over his forehead, his face, set hard, was canted forward.
— from Lloyd George: The Man and His Story by Frank Dilnot - She had canted over still further, and looked more dingy than ever in the growing dusk as she sat in a foreground of slime.
— from A Floating Home by Cyril Ionides - He was the most unpopular of the statesmen of his time, not because he sinned more than many of them, but because he canted less.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
