canted Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb heel over
    tilt; cant; slant; cant over; pitch.
    • The tower is tilting
    • The ceiling is slanting
  2. adjective satellite departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal
    atilt; leaning; tilted; tipped.
    • the leaning tower of Pisa
    • the headstones were tilted

WordNet

Cant"ed adjective
Etymology
From 2d Cant.
Definitions
  1. Having angles; as, a six canted bolt head; a canted window.
  2. Inclined at an angle to something else; tipped; sloping.

Webster 1913