canakin

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They look not too close into the shape of the canakin, nor into the host's reckoning: with them and with their purses 'tis lightly come, and lightly go.

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  • They look not too close into the shape of the canakin, nor into the host's reckoning: with them and with their purses 'tis lightly come, and lightly go. —  The Cloister and the Hearth
  • He loved the "nipperkin, canakin, and the brown bowl" more than they deserve. —  The Cloister and the Hearth
  • [Sings.] "And let me the canakin clink, clink; —  Othello
  • And let me the canakin clink. —  Othello
  • Tashtego, lad, I'd have ye hold a canakin to the jet, and we'd drink round it! —  Moby Dick, or, the whale
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