noun

• (countable) An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
  "He had the look of a prince, but the cant of a fishmonger."
• (countable, uncountable) A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
• (uncountable, derogatory) Empty, hypocritical talk.
  "He is too well grounded for all your philoſophical Cant to hurt."
• (uncountable) Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.

verb

• (intransitive) To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
  "The Doctor here, I will proceed with the learned. / VVhen he diſcourſeth of diſſection, / Or any point of Anatomy: that hee tells you, / Of Vena caua, and of vena porta, / The Meſeraicks, and the Meſenterium. / VVhat does he elſe but cant? […] / Does he not cant? VVho here does vnderſtand him?"
• (intransitive) To speak in set phrases.
• (intransitive) To talk, beg, or preach in a singsong or whining fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
  "[I]f he proue not yet / The cunningſt, ranckeſt Rogue that euer Canted, / Ile neuer ſee man againe, […]"
• (intransitive, heraldry) Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.

noun

• (obsolete) Side, edge, corner, niche.
  "under the cant of a hill"
• (coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
• (nautical) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
• (lumbering) An unfinished log after preliminary cutting.

verb

• (transitive) To set (something) at an angle; to tilt.
  "to cant a cask"
• (transitive) To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
  "to cant round a stick of timber"
• (transitive) To bevel an edge or corner.
• (transitive) To overturn so that the contents are emptied.