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cannikin

noun as in can

noun as in cup

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Example Sentences

And I would like, also, at least in theory, to sit with a merry company of friends, and let the cannikin clink till dawn.

But mark, who is alreads in drink, The cannikin must never clink!

He did not cease smoking for a moment, unless it was to drink from a cannikin of brandy placed before him.

He was one who would go where the cannikin clinked, not caring who should pay; and from supping in the wolves’ den, there is but a step to hunting with the pack.

No cannikin was skimped while I was at the spigot.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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