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cannikin

NOUN
  1. a wooden bucket
  2. a small can

How To Use cannikin In A Sentence

  • And let me the cannikin clink," and ending, "Why then let a soldier drink," Cassio commends the excellence of the ditty. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays
  • No cannikin was skimped while I was at the spigot. The Black Buccaneer
  • Dampier and Mr Hobby were left alone on their ship, within hearing of the buccaneers, who sang, and danced to the fiddle, and clinked the cannikin, till the moon had set. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
  • Or, So let the cannikin clink clink … let the cannikin clink! Since it’s Sheila’s birthday and all… | clusterflock
  • He drew some cognac from the cask into a tin cannikin. Treasure Island
  • Shakespeare's lyrics to music of the old English school, such as his uproarious "Let me the cannikin clink," and his dainty "Tell me where is fancy bred. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
  • QUOTATION: When the liquor’s out, why clink the cannikin? Quotations
  • Or, So let the cannikin clink clink… let the cannikin clink! Since it’s Sheila’s birthday and all… | clusterflock
  • Or, So let the cannikin clink clink … let the cannikin clink! Since it’s Sheila’s birthday and all… | clusterflock
  • There was an old fiddler, a kind of Orpheus of the slums, who would sometimes creep in there and take his post in a corner and begin to play, happy if the mad lads threw him halfpence, or thrust a half-drained tankard under his tearful old nose: happy, too, if they did not -- as they often did -- toss the cannikin at him out of mere lightness of heart and drunkenness of wit. Marjorie
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