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Definition of Cannikin
1. Noun. A wooden bucket.
2. Noun. A small can.
Definition of Cannikin
1. n. A small can or drinking vessel.
Definition of Cannikin
1. Noun. (alternative form of canakin) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cannikin
1. a small can or cup [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cannikin
Literary usage of Cannikin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"In this case it is termed A CANNIBAL, it having eaten up its own kind, and a fine
is enacted from it by the University Boat Club. cannikin or ..."
2. Memoirs of His Own Time: Including the Revolution, the Empire, and the by Mathieu Dumas (1839)
"Dame cannikin, the landlady, her daughter Kate, and her drawer Barnaby, are each
capital in their several ways; so is Barnaby ..."
3. La Musa Madrigalesca: Or, A Collection of Madrigals, Ballets, Roundelays by Thomas Oliphant (1837)
"A snatch of an old ditty, sung by lago, in Shakspeare's tragedy of Othello, is
in a similar vein : " Then let me the cannikin clink, clink, " And let me the ..."
4. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1874)
"At length the cavalcade was fairly off, and the O'cannikin turned briskly ...
Unable to hear anything less forcible than a shout, Mr. O'cannikin gives vent ..."
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