Canister is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CANISTER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to put in a canister
• put into canisters
NOUN:
• a small container, usually of metal, used for tea, shot, etc., also CANNISTER
• a round or cylindrical container used for storing such things as food, chemicals, or rolls of film.
• a cylinder of pressurized gas, typically one that explodes when thrown or fired from a gun
• small bullets packed in cases that fit the bore of a gun
• metal container
• A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc.
• A small box or case for holding tea, coffee, etc.
• A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called also canister shot.
• a metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm
• metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a small, metal box

Words related to CANISTER

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Words that contain CANISTER

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How to use CANISTER in a sentence

• Grape, canister, round shot, shell, and shot, swept through them but they kept forward till nigh crossing bayonets with the Russian infantry.
• Eyeing the attorney as he came forward, she asked him what she could do for him, and before he could answer reached for the snuff canister.
• This, of course, left the difficult task to the English of pushing up to their hand-to-hand work, under the embarrassment of receiving constant discharges of grape and canister.
• Not even a canister had lodged in her spars, or torn her sails.
• Immediately the Allies discharge grape and canister on the advancing host.
• The three sizes of shot are frequently mixed in the same canister.
• We had all our saddles buried in a cache near the river, about half a mile below, and deposited at the same time a canister of powder, and a bag of balls.
• The only chest that came ashore unbroken was that of Robinson the apprentice, and in it there was a canister of powder.
• Arms and ammunition were served to the crew, and our brass cannon was loaded to the muzzle with grape and canister.
• Lest they should have miscarried, I now pack with the rice a canister of the same kind of seed, raised by myself.
• Shrapnel-shell or spherical case-shot is intended to exceed the range of canister, and is to be used only under the same circumstances, but at an increased distance.
• Shrapnel may be effectively used where the dispersion of common canister becomes too great and its effects feeble.
• The roar of the shells, the hum of grape and canister, the whistle of bullets, the shouts of men, formed a mighty roar that seemed to render thinking impossible.
• The fresh artillery which came up opened upon the Sikh cavalry with grape and canister, with such precision and fury that they retreated.
• Its canister shot contained jagged pieces of iron, broken bolts, and nails.
• One of our batteries was quietly placed within point-blank range of the Indians, and suddenly opened upon them with grape and canister.
• It was intensely hot, not a breath of air stirring, and to add to our misfortunes, we had inadvertently dined off the contents of a canister of salt meat.
• He then ordered them to load with canister shot, and took the match in his own hand.
• All at once there came the noise of a gun, and another, and of a whole battery, and many batteries, and fields and woods were alive with shells and canister.
• The gun was double-shotted with canister, and the head of the column should have been swept away.
• The trails were swung round in the new direction, the canister crashed through the laurels, the supporting infantry rushed forward, and the Southerners were driven back.
• In vain their powerful artillery, firing case and canister with desperate energy, strove to arrest the rush of the pursuing infantry.
• But hardly had they gained the road when the Federal batteries, along their whole front, opened a terrible fire of grape and canister.
• Then, rousing himself, he put fresh tea from the canister into the cup, and poured boiling water over it from the mouth of the fantastic dragon.
• The canister is then closed by a lid, and afterward securely fastened down by the top of the chest.
• The two forward guns had been run in, and the shot having been drawn, their places were supplied with double charges of grape and canister.
• The canister was made of two curved pieces of sheet tin with soldered edges, cloth or paper being used at the ends.
• It was surrounded with sand or earth, so that the effect of the blast was practically the same as though the hole were drilled in the shape of the canister.
• Were it possible to drill the hole in the shape of the canister, it would obviously save a good deal of work which had to be undone.
• It is also more economical than the Portland canister, in that it requires less drilling and the waste of stone is less.
• A battery here did fearful execution among the Rebels with shell, grape, and canister.
• Isabel always made the tea out of a canister the old lady kept locked.
• A two gun sheet battery which had been committing great havoc on a column of infantry, was still throwing grape and canister with murderous effect.
• In a cairn of this sort at Canister an iron knife was found.
• The tea that came from this canister I wish I could describe.
• A canister that is the remains of furniture and a looking-glass and a bed-room and a larger size, all the stand is shouted and what is ancient is practical.

Similar words containing CANIST without suffix er

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