canakin
Definitions
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- noun A little can or cup.
Examples
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"Ho, landlord!" cried the Peddler, "bring this good fellow another pot of ale, for truly it is a credit to us all to have one among us who can empty a canakin so lustily."
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Where does chivalry at last become something more than a mere procession of plumes and armor, to be lamented by Burke, except in some of the less ambitious verses of the Trouvères, where we hear the canakin clink too emphatically, perhaps, but which at least paint living men and possible manners?
The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
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Then, Tashtego, lad, I'd have ye hold a canakin to the jet, and we'd drink round it!
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They look not too close into the shape of the canakin, nor into the host's reckoning: with them and with their purses 'tis lightly come, and lightly go.
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Stutely must needs snatch a kiss from the stout hostess, and got a canakin of ale emptied over his head for his pains.
Note
The word 'canakin' is a diminutive of 'can' with '-kin'.
