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Webster 1913 Edition


Canaster

Ca-nas′ter

,
Noun.
[Sp.
canasta
,
canastro
, basket, fr. L.
canistrum
. See
Canister
.]
A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; – so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America.
McElrath.