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cannikin

(n): a wooden bucket
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about 1 month ago yarb said:

"'Aye, aye, my merry lads, it's a lively leak this; hold a cannikin, one of ye, and let's have a taste. By the Lord, it's worth bottling!'"

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 54

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