Definitions for canisters

canisters can·is·ter

Spelling: [kan-uh-ster]
IPA: /ˈkæn ə stər/

Canisters is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 800 anagrams from letters in canisters (aceinrsst).

Definitions for canisters

noun

  1. a small box or jar, often one of a kitchen set, for holding tea, coffee, flour, and sugar.
  2. Also called canister shot. case shot.
  3. the part of a gas mask containing the neutralizing substances through which poisoned air is filtered.

Origin of canisters

1670-80; Latin canistrum wicker basket Greek kánastron, derivative of kánna reed (see cane), with -astron, variant of -tron suffix of instrument (probably from verbal

Examples for canisters

I took film canisters and, essentially, rolled each breast around the canister, then fit them into the cup of the corset.

Poague's section opened with canister at one hundred and fifty yards.

Then we had no quarters at all, being perfectly exposed to grape and canister.

This done, the grape and canister told with fearful execution.

Roll it thin, cut it into little cakes with a wine glass, or the top of a canister, and bake them fifteen minutes on tin plates.

The smell of tear gas is as unique as the sound of its canister being deployed.

On another, Garrison said he handed a doctor a bottle of wine in a canister packed with $100 bills.

The shells and the grape and the canister and the bullets are smashing through them.

The storm of canister caused them to waver a little, but that was all.

Having Lou Dobbs and Rick Kaplan reporting to me at the same time was like holding a canister of nitroglycerin in each hand.

Word Value for canisters
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

Similar words for canisters
Word of the day