Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rush basket made in the Spanish countries of South America and used for packing tobacco for exportation. The tobacco sent to Europe packed in these baskets takes from them the name of canaster tobacco.
- noun Hence A kind of tobacco for smoking, consisting of the dried leaves coarsely broken.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America.
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- noun Coarse, dried
tobacco leaves.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then did the village doctor begin to praise his canaster.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Kuno Francke 1892
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After I reached home came supper and the delightful evening hours, when over my pipe (I had given up cigars, as being too expensive and inappropriate, and had taken to a tall pipe and canaster tobacco) we talked and planned, and told each other our day's experience.
Rudder Grange Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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The mother and sister had arranged everything in the nicest manner, the father had given excellent wine out of the cellar, and the student himself, here the rex convivii, had provided tobacco, genuine Oronoko-canaster.
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While I was buying my ounce of canaster that dog entered the shop.
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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But I don't speak of the years in which that scorpion has been enjoying a salary and smoking canaster at my expense.
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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While I was buying my ounce of canaster that dog entered the shop.
What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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But I don't speak of the years in which that scorpion has been enjoying a salary and smoking canaster at my expense.
What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Strumpff of Gottingen takes down No. 13 from the wall, with a picture of Beatrice Cenci upon it, and which holds a pound of canaster, the Frau
The Fitz-Boodle Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Once you invade their base, either you or your partner steal the green stuff (the canaster) while the other person go, s and stays at the gas mask.
unknown title 2009
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The vacuum had great suction, low noise, an auto-rewind option, easy cleaning option with the click-out bagless canaster, and wasn't too heavy.
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