Definition of Cannisters

1. cannister [n] - See also: cannister

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cannisters

cannibalizes
cannibalizing
cannibally
cannibals
cannie
cannier
canniest
cannikin
cannikins
cannily
canniness
canninesses
canning
cannings
cannister
cannisters (current term)
cannit
cannizzarite
cannoli
cannolis
cannon
cannon-bone
cannon ball
cannon bone
cannon cracker
cannon fire
cannon fodder
cannon sound
cannon wave
cannonade

Literary usage of Cannisters

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Furniture of Our Forefathers by Esther Singleton, Russell Sturgis (1913)
"... 1759; cannisters, brass Indian kettles in nests, mahogany and book tea chests, 1760 ; nests of kettles to hold from thirty gallons down to a quart, ..."

2. Walk the Crooked Road with the Crooks by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1994)
"What I am counting on is that Canadians would start calling or writing to the Prime Minister's Office requesting that they break into the cannisters and ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Similarly, it is easier for police to send tear gas cannisters or bullets flying at students if they have never had direct opportunity to learn that there ..."

4. The Journals of Hugh Gaine, Printer by Hugh Gaine (1902)
"Tops, neat Tea Chests, with cannisters, japan'd Waiters and Tea-Boards, new-fashioned Leather Bottle Stands, japan'd Tea-cannisters and Sugar Pots, ..."

5. The Fales Family of Bristol, Rhode Island: Ancestry of Haliburton Fales of by DeCoursey Fales, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton (1919)
"4. 6 2 black tea pots 3/ black tin tea pot 2/ °. 5- — Stone butter boats and Cups 1/6 2 cream coloured mugs t/6 o. 2. 6 4 wine Glasses 4/ 4 cannisters ..."

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