0 past simple and past participle of canter
1 If a horse canters, it moves at quite a fast but easy and comfortable speed:
I have cantered around this course many times.
It is exactly three weeks since we last cantered over the problems facing this country's agricultural industry.
We cantered over that course during the past year or so many times.
We have cantered round this particular course on a number of occasions recently, but the horse that is being cantered today seems to be of a different colour.
Descriptions of many of his races say that he cantered home or won easing up.
Pieces cantered over are not removed from the board.