can buoy
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noun
a cylindrical, unlighted buoy used as a channel marker.
Compare nun buoy.
Origin of can buoy
First recorded in 1620–30
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He had so little room that his main-boom hit the can-buoy as he swept by.
The SeinersJames B. (James Brendan) Connolly
can buoy
noun
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