canters

In this place we took of the fishermen such necessaries as we wanted, and they could yield us; and leaving here one of our little barks, called the Benedict, we took with us one of theirs which they called canters, being of the burden of 40 tons or thereabouts.

Sir Francis Drake’s Famous Voyage Round the World 1909

The deer cries again, and we follow the sound through the trees, emerging into a dry streambed where several other jeeps and two of the lumbering, 20-seat vehicles called "canters" have pulled up, full of animal paparazzi like us.

The Seattle Times 2011

"canters," as Byron called them -- the children and champions of the anti-revolution.

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

Eagleman canters through various well-known neurological cases, none original to this book, in which criminal acts or radical changes in personality have been shown to be the result of brain damage or disease.

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman – review 2011

Low murmurs gave way to silence as Totilas glided through trots, twirled pirouettes and burst into canters.

Defying Neigh-Sayers, a New Star Hoofs It Onto the World Stage Mary M. Lane 2011

The girls giggle and Oliver flushes angrily, wheels and canters back to the pack.

First Blood 2010

The beast canters across the ring, raising yellow eddies of dust, its eyes fixed on the lady matador.

The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010

Tom and Benny kicked their horses into canters, and once they were outside the gate, they turned to the south and kicked harder.

Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry 2010

Later, after he had watched the daughter of Invincible Spirit do two routine exercise canters on Warren Hill, he revealed both Frankie Dettori and Ryan Moore had "offered their services".

Tom Queally faces a battle to partner Fleeting Spirit in the July Cup Chris Cook at Newmarket 2010

Beginning in the mid-16th century, with text-heavy allegorical and emblematic prints, the exhibition canters brusquely through the great ribald explosion of the 1700s?

Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain 2010