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[petrusplancius]

'Cant' in the sense of 'edge' or 'border'. I was reading a journal of a voyage to the Arctic whaling-grounds in the 1830s, in which the author describes his ship 'as running down the cant of the ice'. At first I thought this might be a term that the British whalers had picked up from their Dutch colleagues, 'kant' in this sense be a very common

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[aviatrix]

Now I want to find a reason to include the sentence "It was his wont to be canting around" in something.

[hitchhiker]

"the cant of the ice" is more likely to be using it in the sense of "tilt"