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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A jar or box, usually of simple form and having a double cover, the inner cover being made to fit airtight.

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  • Among these articles was a tin tea-canister which, when opened, proved to be full of money; gold, silver and even humble copper, to say nothing of several banknotes.

    Love Eternal Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • There was little more than a heel of very stale bread, and no butter, and only a scrape of jam; but there was a little tea in the bottom of the tea-canister, and a little coarse brown sugar in a cup.

    Sue, A Little Heroine L. T. Meade 1884

  • The bread is found rolled up in a carpet in an upper bedroom, the coffee-pot tied up in the bedding, the sugar in a barrel of carpet-rags, the tea-canister in the scuttle under the flatirons, the spoons in with a basket of empty medicine-bottles, and the table-cloth tied up with a half-bushel of tinware.

    They All Do It; or, Mr. Miggs of Danbury and his Neighbors Being a Faithful Record of What Befell the Miggses on Several Important Occasions ... 1877

  • There was no reply to my question; and on looking round I saw only Joseph bringing in a pail of porridge for the dogs, and Mrs. Heathcliff leaning over the fire, diverting herself with burning a bundle of matches which had fallen from the chimney-piece as she restored the tea-canister to its place.

    Wuthering Heights 1847

  • The tea-pot was got where she seemed to know it would be found, so also the tea-canister.

    Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII Alexander Leighton 1837

  • There was no reply to my question; and on looking round I saw only Joseph bringing in a pail of porridge for the dogs, and Mrs. Heathcliff leaning over the fire, diverting herself with burning a bundle of matches which had fallen from the chimney-piece as she restored the tea-canister to its place.

    Wuthering Heights Emily Bront�� 1833

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