canakin

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From Middle Dutch kanneken, cannekijn (a little can), equivalent to can +‎ -kin.

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canakin (plural canakins)

  1. (archaic) A little can or cup.
    • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
      And let me the canakin clink, clink;
      And let me the canakin clink
      A soldier's a man;
      A life's but a span;
      Why, then, let a soldier drink.
      Some wine, boys!
    • 1851, Herman Melville, chapter 84, in Moby Dick:
      Then, Tashtego, lad, I'd have ye hold a canakin to the jet, and we'd drink round it!
    • 1935 December 7, The Herald, Melbourne, page 37, column 5:
      That our Dutchman was a gay fellow, who loved, to clink the canakin and spend his leisure in social jollification, his face and art most royally proclaim.

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