canakin

British  

/ ˈkænɪkɪn /

noun

1. a variant spelling of cannikin

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Example Sentences

Psha! none of your jokes, man; you know, that her ladyship, no more than myself, has set eyes upon you since you was the bigness of a rumbo canakin.

From Project Gutenberg

The other songs, "King Stephen was a worthy peer," and "Let me the canakin clink, clink," are both probably quotations from older songs; while the so-called "traditional" tunes are very like the so-called "traditional" etc. in other plays by the master.

From Project Gutenberg

Where does chivalry at last become something more than a mere procession of plumes and armor, to be lamented by Burke, except in some of the less ambitious verses of the Trouvères, where we hear the canakin clink too emphatically, perhaps, but which at least paint living men and possible manners?

From Project Gutenberg

V. iii.And let me the canakin clink, clink; Oth.

From Project Gutenberg

So bring out the smallest canakin and let it clink softly,—for I have news to tell you.

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