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Canister
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- 1 A cylindrical or rectangular container usually of lightweight metal, plastic, or laminated pasteboard used for holding a dry product (as tea, crackers, flour, matches).
"Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe."
- 2 metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour wordnet
- 3 Any of various cylindrical metal receptacles usually with a removable close-fitting top.
- 4 a metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm wordnet
- 5 A special short-range antipersonnel projectile consisting of a casing of light metal, loaded with preformed submissiles such as flechettes or steel balls. The casing is designed to open just beyond the muzzle of the weapon, dispersing the submissiles.
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- 6 A projectile component containing colored or screening smoke or riot control agent composition.
- 7 A component of canister-type protective masks containing a mechanical filter and chemical filling to filter, neutralize and/or absorb toxic chemical, biological and radiological agents.
- 8 Part of a windmill that connects the sails to the windshaft.
- 9 A person's head. archaic, slang
"Caunt let fly left and right, but Bendy ducked his canister, and got down with more caution than gallantry."
- 1 To pack into a canister. transitive
Etymology
From Middle English canustyr (“basket”), a borrowing from Latin canistrum. Doublet of canaster and knaster. * (metal receptacle): Through influence of unrelated can. * (projectile): Short for canister shot, so called for its casing.
From Middle English canustyr (“basket”), a borrowing from Latin canistrum. Doublet of canaster and knaster. * (metal receptacle): Through influence of unrelated can. * (projectile): Short for canister shot, so called for its casing.
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