canted

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Again the automobile lurched, canted, and hung as it did yesterday at Hurricane Creek; (p. 82)

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  1. Having cants or angles: in architecture, applied to pillars, turrets, or towers the plan of which is a polygon.
  2. Tilted to one side.

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  • Vision canted, slipped, and the floor came up to meet Kirtn, swallowing him in a darkness that had no end. —  Ann Maxwell - Fire Dancer 2 - Dancer's Luck (v1.0)
  • Instead, it was slightly canted, and the door stood open a crack. —  process 11
  • It seemed to Crawford that Josephine's head was canted, that she was looking upward through her glass eye. —  Tim Powers - The Stress of Her Regard
  • The soundboard is canted, sloping toward the tailpiece, is the same on all the bowlbacks. —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • Again the automobile lurched, canted, and hung as it did yesterday at Hurricane Creek; (p. 82) —  TESTLOG
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