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Canteen   /kæntˈin/   Listen
noun
Canteen  n.  (Mil.)
1.
A small vessel used by soldiers or hikers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink. (Written also cantine) Note: In 1910 in the English service the canteen is made of wood and holds three pints; in the United States it is usually a tin flask.
2.
A chest containing culinary and other vessels for military officers in a garrison.
3.
The sutler's shop in a garrison.
4.
Hence: A store or small shop within a larger establishment where refreshments and sometimes other supplies are sold. At a military base the canteen may be as large as a general store; within a school or small company it may be only a small counter with very limited supplies, or a snack bar.
5.
A temporary location where food is dispensed during an emergency.






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"Canteen" Quotes from Famous Books



... large open space, the centre occupied by a hatchway, which made a convenient seat for about twenty persons, while barrels, coils of rope, and the carpenter's bench afforded perches for perhaps as many more. The canteen, or steerage bar, was on one side of the stair; on the other, a no less attractive spot, the cabin ...
— Essays of Travel • Robert Louis Stevenson

... of travel light." The hunter handed over a small bag of food and a large canteen full of water. He himself packed a much larger load, including two canteens and a powerful field-glass. Taking a shotgun from the boat, he shouldered it, and set out at a long, ...
— Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... gentle sports and holiday recreations. At length the valiant Peter, watching his opportunity, aimed a blow enough to cleave his adversary to the very chine; but Risingh, nimbly raising his sword, warded it off so narrowly, that, glancing on one side, it shaved away a huge canteen in which he carried his liquor,—thence pursuing its trenchant course, it severed off a deep coat-pocket, stored with bread and cheese,—which provant, rolling among the armies, occasioned a fearful scrambling between the Swedes and ...
— Washington Irving • Charles Dudley Warner

... pommel. Each blanket, as snugly packed, with the sidelines festooned upon the top, was strapped at the cantle. Lariat and picket pin, coiled and secured, hung from the near side of the pommel. The canteen, suspended from its snap hook, hung at the off side. Saddle-bags, with extra horse shoes, nails, socks, underwear, brushes and comb, extra packages of carbine and revolver cartridges and minor impedimenta, equally distributed as to weight, swung from the cantle and underneath the blanket ...
— A Daughter of the Sioux - A Tale of the Indian frontier • Charles King

... taken a very amicable turn had M'Lauchlan heard the latter part of this speech; but, as happily he was engaged unpacking a small canteen which he had placed in the wagon, ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) • Charles Lever


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