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canaster

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Noun
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can=as=ter

CIDE DICTIONARY

canastern. [Sp. canasta, canastro, basket, fr. L. canistrum. See Canister.].
     A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America.  McElrath.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

canaster, n. tobacco made from coarsely broken dried leaves.

Etymology
orig. the container: Sp. canastro ult. f. Gk kanastron

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