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单词 canister
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canistern.

/ˈkanɪstə/
Forms: Also 1700s–1800s cannister.
Etymology: < Latin canistrum bread basket, basket for fruit or flowers, < Greek κάναστρον wicker basket (apparently < κάννα reed).
1.
a. A small case or box, usually of metal, for holding tea, coffee, shot, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] > small box
boxOE
skibbet1398
boiette1525
caskanet1607
farset1639
canister1711
chip box1738
cassette1793
mull1831
1711 London Gaz. No. 4915/4 A silver Canister for Tea.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Lanterne à mitrailles, a case..or canister, filled with case-shot.
1778 S. Johnson in Boswell Life Johnson (1887) III. 320 An author hunted with a cannister at his tail.
1828 J. W. Croker in Croker Papers (1884) I. xiii. 404 A dog with a canister tied to his tail.
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b. Roman Catholic Church A metal vessel used to hold the wafers before consecration.
2. An instrument used in racking off wine. Obsolete.In Bailey, etc.
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1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Cannister, a certain Instrument which Coopers use in the racking of [1696 off] the Wine.
3. A quantity of tea from 75 to 100 lbs. weight.
ΚΠ
1704 Dict. Rusticum Canister, of Tea, 75 to 1 C. weight.
1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Cannister of Tea, a Quantity from 75 to 100 Pounds-weight.
1721 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
4. A basket for bread, flowers, etc. [transl. or imitation of the Latin or Greek]
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > basket > [noun]
teanela700
windlec725
spertc975
kipec1000
leapc1000
willyc1000
basketa1300
coopa1300
hoppera1300
ripc1300
skepc1340
coffinc1380
criba1387
skippetc1450
corfc1483
wisket1542
prickle1543
cleave1577
serpet1615
wicker1646
bascaud1647
shapeta1657
fender1682
canister1697
kist1724
calathus1753
voider1788
wick1802
skip1816
maeshie1822
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 230 Then Canisters with Bread are heap'd on high.
1699 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ II. iv. viii. 253 Full Canisters of fragrant Lilies.
1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 184 They heap the glitt'ring Canisters with bread.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 79 Weave wood to canisters and mats.
5. Short for canister-shot n. at Compounds 2.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shot collectively > shot > of large guns
fricasseec1575
murdering shot1583
chain-shota1586
crossbar1589
cross-bar shot1591
case shot1599
langrel1627
trundle-shot1627
partridge1635
chain-bullet1636
pelican1639
case1642
spike-shota1661
double-head1678
double-headed shot1678
partridge-shot1683
grape1687
burrel-shot1706
double1707
angel-shot1730
grapeshot1747
star shot1753
bar-shot1756
langrage1769
canister1801
stang-ball1802
chain1804
canister-shot1809
tier-shot1828
pot-leg1852
six-pounder1855
shunt shot1864
sand-shot1867
mitraille1868
1801 Naval Chron. 6 237 A brisk discharge of cannister and grape.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. vi. 82 ‘Put another dose of canister in.’ We did so, and then discharged the gun.
1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea II. xvi. 331 The storm of..grape and canister, came in blasts.

Compounds

C1. canisterful.
ΚΠ
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. vi. 50 A canister-full of treasure.
C2.
canister-shot n. a kind of case-shot consisting of ‘a number of small iron balls..packed in a cylindrical tin case fitting the bore of the gun from which it is to be fired’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. at Case-shot).
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shot collectively > shot > of large guns
fricasseec1575
murdering shot1583
chain-shota1586
crossbar1589
cross-bar shot1591
case shot1599
langrel1627
trundle-shot1627
partridge1635
chain-bullet1636
pelican1639
case1642
spike-shota1661
double-head1678
double-headed shot1678
partridge-shot1683
grape1687
burrel-shot1706
double1707
angel-shot1730
grapeshot1747
star shot1753
bar-shot1756
langrage1769
canister1801
stang-ball1802
chain1804
canister-shot1809
tier-shot1828
pot-leg1852
six-pounder1855
shunt shot1864
sand-shot1867
mitraille1868
1809 Naval Chron. 21 25 Repeated broadsides of grape and cannister shot.
1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) VI. 376 1000 rounds of canister shot.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

canisterv.

Etymology: < canister n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcanister.
transitive. (a) To put in a canister. (b) To fasten a canister to the tail of (a dog).
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > ill-treat [verb (transitive)] > an animal in specific way
vex1625
worry1807
canister1815
tail-pipe1815
1815 ‘J. Mathers’ Hist. Mr. John Decastro & Brother Bat ii. 58 No dog canistered but I held his tail.
1862 M. Napier Mem. Life Visct. Dundee II. 124 In the same spirit with which a cruel boy canisters a dog.

Derivatives

ˈcanistered adj.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [adjective] > in or as in specific receptacles
barrelled1494
casked1624
pocketed1647
tunned1672
intubed1688
kitted1725
basined1745
canistered1843
pottled1845
carboyed1855
tubbed1882
sacked1895
pouched1905
cartoned1921
cupped1929
ampouled1969
slipcased1969
1843 A. W. Fonblanque in Life & Labours (1874) ii. 144 The canistered genii..in the ‘Arabian Nights’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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