canaster

From Dutch kanaster, from Spanish canastro (“basket”).^[1] Doublet of canister and knaster.

• Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)

canaster (uncountable)

1. (tobacco) Coarse, dried tobacco leaves.

   Synonym: knaster

   • 1972, William Bates, George Cruikshank: the artist, the humorist, and the man, with some account of his brother Robert‎^[1], →ISBN:

     The frontispiece to the first of these books, engraved on steel with much delicacy by Davenport, is so carefully drawn, and displays such refinement of humour, that it might be ascribed to Wilkie or Smirke; and in Knickerbocker, George could hardly then have become a misocapnist when he limned with such intense gusto the "Pipe-Plot," with its group of smoke-compelling burghers, or the "Death of Walter the Doubter," where his lymphatic Excellency, lungs and pipe exhausted together, exhales his peaceful soul in the last whiff of canaster!

• Ancaster, Canteras, cane rats, caterans

From cān(us) (“gray”) + -aster.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kaːˈnas.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kaˈnas.ter]

cānaster (feminine cānastra, neuter cānastrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. grizzled
2. half-gray

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

• “canaster”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “canaster”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.