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  • noun Alternative form of canakin.

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Examples

  • The smaller houses were crowded with soldiery, hob-nobbing with the folk on whom they were billeted, and all were yelling out, "Let the cannakin clink!" and other rowdy ditties in the intervals of drinking.

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • Villon shook his head, applied himself again to the cannakin, and emerged from it with a most melancholy expression of countenance.

    If I Were King Justin McCarthy 1871

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