1793. Smeaton, Edystone L., § 51. The bottom projection, which has been called the Kant, and which fills up the angle formed between the uprights and the sloping surface of the rock.
1861. Smiles, Engineers, II. VII. vii. 217, note. Two great piers, one … the straight part extending outwards about 154 yards, from which there were to be two kants of about 64 yards each. Ibid., 219. The moment the vessel gets within the outer angles of the two return arms or kants, she may be said to be in or out of the harbour, as the case may be.
