canister

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This is the first in the Jetboil range of stoves to feature a remote canister, and the canister is meant to be inverted.

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  1. noun A usually cylindrical storage container, especially:
  2. noun A box or can of thin metal or plastic used for holding dry foodstuffs or cooking ingredients, such as flour or sugar.
  3. noun A small plastic container used for storing a roll of film.

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  • Luckily, it was on the other side, not underneath, because digging for it wasn't in my repertoire Inside, the canister was a mess, but I'd thrown in lots of oxygen bottles, and a couple minutes later, I'd found one and was recharging my suit. —  AnalogSFF,June2007
  • I mean, so long as the canister was full, its cargo couldn't shift—but clamps are cheap, so why not make doubly certain? —  AnalogSFF,June2007
  • This machine works by prefreezing the ice cream canister, which is filled with liquid coolant for eight hours and then turning it on for an easy half hour with the ingredients - and voila, it's homemade ice cream. —  FIUSM.com
  • This of course is the exact moment when someone else came into the restroom, just as I'm standing in the next stall with my feet facing the wrong way, pants down around my ankles, still brown around the down-under, clumsily splashing my hand into the bowl and down the hole, grasping at nothing because the canister is already gone. —  PoopReport.com
  • A search conducted of Mann's nearby home turned up five similar military canisters, one of which bore the same lot number as the canister found in the woods; a box containing 45 practice rounds of ammunition for a grenade launcher; a roll of plastic similar to that in which the canister was found; and, in a safe in the basement, two grenade launchers, each capable of firing the buried ordinances. —  Latest Articles
 

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  1. Latin canistrum, basket, from Greek kanastron, from kanna, reed; see cane.

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  1. Formerly also cannister, from Latin canistrum, a basket woven from reeds, = Middle Low German kanaster, from Greek κάνιστρον, κάναστρον, a wicker basket, also an earthen vessel (cf. French canastre, from Portuguese canastra = Spanish canastre, usually canasto, a basket: see canaster), from κάννα, a reed: see cane.
 

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/ˈkænɪstər/
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