Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small can or cup.
- noun A small wooden bucket.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little can or cup. Also written
canakin . - noun A wooden bucket for holding sugar, rice, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small can or drinking vessel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
canakin .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a wooden bucket
- noun a small can
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Or, So let the cannikin clink clink … let the cannikin clink!
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Or, So let the cannikin clink clink… let the cannikin clink!
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At the final "Yo, ho, ho!" every cannikin crashed on the deal table and the lantern heaved to and fro overhead as if a gale were blowing outside.
The Black Buccaneer 1934
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No cannikin was skimped while I was at the spigot.
The Black Buccaneer 1934
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Dampier and Mr Hobby were left alone on their ship, within hearing of the buccaneers, who sang, and danced to the fiddle, and clinked the cannikin, till the moon had set.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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QUOTATION: When the liquors out, why clink the cannikin?
Quotations 1919
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Shakespeare's lyrics to music of the old English school, such as his uproarious "Let me the cannikin clink," and his dainty "Tell me where is fancy bred."
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There was an old fiddler, a kind of Orpheus of the slums, who would sometimes creep in there and take his post in a corner and begin to play, happy if the mad lads threw him halfpence, or thrust a half-drained tankard under his tearful old nose: happy, too, if they did not -- as they often did -- toss the cannikin at him out of mere lightness of heart and drunkenness of wit.
Marjorie 1898
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"And let me the cannikin clink," and ending, "Why then let a soldier drink," Cassio commends the excellence of the ditty.
Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Sidney Lee 1892
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He drew some cognac from the cask into a tin cannikin.
Treasure Island 1883
yarb commented on the word cannikin
"'Aye, aye, my merry lads, it's a lively leak this; hold a cannikin, one of ye, and let's have a taste. By the Lord, it's worth bottling!'"
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 54
July 25, 2008
madmouth commented on the word cannikin
spelling variants within the text: kannikin and canakin
June 15, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word cannikin
a kin to a bucket?
September 4, 2010