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Canaster   Listen
noun
Canaster  n.  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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Canaster" Quotes from Famous Books



... the gilt weathercock over Ponteglos church tower, that until you knew the truth you would have sworn half his life had been spent on the quarter-deck. And while the sea-captains—serious men, attired in blue cloth, wearing rings in their ears—sat and smoked canaster and other queer tobaccos in painted china pipes, and talked of countries whose very names conjured up visions of parrots, and carved idols, and sharks, and brown natives in flashing canoes, Master Simon ...
— Wandering Heath • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch



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