Obs. Also 6 cantel, kantel. [f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To cut into quarters or portions, divide.
1607. Dekker, Wh. of Babylon, I. i. Wks. 1873, II. 193. This vast Globe Terrestriall should be cantled, And almost three parts ours.
1693. Dryden, Juvenal’s Sat. vii. 157 For four times talking, if one piece thou take, That must be cantled, and the Judge go snack.
2. To cantle out: to portion out, cut out.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. xcii. 570. Men are alwayes giuen to cantle out the poore folkes morsels as short as can be.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 64. Their shape being nothing but their bulk so cantled out.
3. To piece together cantles of cloth.
1548. Hall, Chron. (1809), 609. The garment was large & plited verie thicke & canteled of very good intaile.
1568. Grafton, Chron. Hen. VIII., an. 6. 1012. Their apparell and bardes were cloth of golde, cloth of siluer, and crymsyn velvet kanteled together all in one sute.
