canakin

"Ho, landlord!" cried the Peddler, "bring this good fellow another pot of ale, for truly it is a credit to us all to have one among us who can empty a canakin so lustily."

The Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle 1882

Tashtego, lad, I'd have ye hold a canakin to the jet, and we'd drink round it!

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

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?

The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays James Russell Lowell 1855

Then, Tashtego, lad, I'd have ye hold a canakin to the jet, and we'd drink round it!

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

Then, Tashtego, lad, I'd have ye hold a canakin to the jet, and we'd drink round it!

Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

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 Charles Reade 1849

He loved the "nipperkin, canakin, and the brown bowl" more than they deserve.

The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849

I’d have ye hold a canakin to the jet, and we’d drink round it!

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Stutely must needs snatch a kiss from the stout hostess, and got a canakin of ale emptied over his head for his pains. "

The Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle 1882