English

Noun

canaster ‎(uncountable)

1. (tobacco) Coarse, dried tobacco leaves.
   • 1972, William Bates, George Cruikshank: the artist, the humorist, and the man, with some account of his brother Robert, ISBN 9789060331712:

     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!

Latin

Etymology

From cān(us) ‎(“gray”) +‎ -aster

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaːˈnas.ter/, [kaːˈnas.tɛr]

Adjective

cānaster m ‎(feminine cānastra, neuter cānastrum); first/second declension

1. grizzled.
2. half-gray.

Inflection

First/second declension, nominative masculine singular in -er.

References

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