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Cannikin

A small can or drinking vessel.

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Bucket 76% connected

A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.

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Can 76% connected

an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [See Gan.]

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Pail 76% connected

A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or…

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Tin 76% connected

An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatur…

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