Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Canaster"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Canaster \Ca*nas"ter\, n. [Sp. canasta, canastro, basket, fr. L.
canistrum. See {Canister}.]
A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves,
coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which
it is packed in South America. --McElrath.
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