(obsolete) A splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something.
, Act III, Scene i:
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The raised back of a saddle.
: See how this river comes me cranking in, / And cuts me from the best of all my land / A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.
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(Scotland) The top of the head.
1600, Edward Fairfax (tr.), The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VI, xlviii:
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