Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A jar or box, usually of simple form and having a double cover, the inner cover being made to fit airtight.
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Examples
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Among these articles was a tin tea-canister which, when opened, proved to be full of money; gold, silver and even humble copper, to say nothing of several banknotes.
Love Eternal Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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There was little more than a heel of very stale bread, and no butter, and only a scrape of jam; but there was a little tea in the bottom of the tea-canister, and a little coarse brown sugar in a cup.
Sue, A Little Heroine L. T. Meade 1884
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The bread is found rolled up in a carpet in an upper bedroom, the coffee-pot tied up in the bedding, the sugar in a barrel of carpet-rags, the tea-canister in the scuttle under the flatirons, the spoons in with a basket of empty medicine-bottles, and the table-cloth tied up with a half-bushel of tinware.
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There was no reply to my question; and on looking round I saw only Joseph bringing in a pail of porridge for the dogs, and Mrs. Heathcliff leaning over the fire, diverting herself with burning a bundle of matches which had fallen from the chimney-piece as she restored the tea-canister to its place.
Wuthering Heights 1847
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The tea-pot was got where she seemed to know it would be found, so also the tea-canister.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII Alexander Leighton 1837
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There was no reply to my question; and on looking round I saw only Joseph bringing in a pail of porridge for the dogs, and Mrs. Heathcliff leaning over the fire, diverting herself with burning a bundle of matches which had fallen from the chimney-piece as she restored the tea-canister to its place.
Wuthering Heights Emily Bront�� 1833
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