[f. CANTLE sb. + -ET.] A small cantle, a fragment.
a. 1700. Dryden, Fab. Ovid’s Met., xii. 180. Huge cantlets of his buckler strew the ground.
1848. Kingsley, Saint’s Trag., I. i. 201. To spoil a waggon-load of ash-staves … And break a dozen fools’ backs across their cantlets.
1849. C. Brontë, Shirley, xxxiii. A cantlet of cold custard-pudding.
