Cannikin

Or, So let the cannikin clink clink … let the cannikin clink! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Or, So let the cannikin clink clink… let the cannikin clink! ❋ Unknown (2009)

At the final "Yo, ho, ho!" every cannikin crashed on the deal table and the lantern heaved to and fro overhead as if a gale were blowing outside. ❋ Unknown (1934)

No cannikin was skimped while I was at the spigot. ❋ Unknown (1934)

Dampier and Mr Hobby were left alone on their ship, within hearing of the buccaneers, who sang, and danced to the fiddle, and clinked the cannikin, till the moon had set. ❋ John Masefield (1922)

QUOTATION: When the liquor’s out, why clink the cannikin? ❋ Unknown (1919)

Shakespeare's lyrics to music of the old English school, such as his uproarious "Let me the cannikin clink," and his dainty "Tell me where is fancy bred." ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)

There was an old fiddler, a kind of Orpheus of the slums, who would sometimes creep in there and take his post in a corner and begin to play, happy if the mad lads threw him halfpence, or thrust a half-drained tankard under his tearful old nose: happy, too, if they did not -- as they often did -- toss the cannikin at him out of mere lightness of heart and drunkenness of wit. ❋ Unknown (1898)

"And let me the cannikin clink," and ending, "Why then let a soldier drink," Cassio commends the excellence of the ditty. ❋ Sidney Lee (1892)

He drew some cognac from the cask into a tin cannikin. ❋ Unknown (1883)

Under that the miscellany began -- a quadrant, a tin cannikin, several sticks of tobacco, two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old Spanish watch, and some other trinkets of little value and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

This Greenlander seeing I was ill, volunteered to turn doctor and cure me; so going down into the forecastle, he came back with a brown jug, like a molasses jug, and a little tin cannikin, and as soon as the brown jug got near my nose, I needed no telling what was in it, for it smelt like a still-house, and sure enough proved to be full of Jamaica spirits. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

With the "kid," a. little tin cannikin was passed down with molasses. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

“’Aye, aye, my merry lads, it’s a lively leak this; hold a cannikin, one of ye, and let’s have a taste. ❋ Unknown (2002)

7090When the liquor’s out, why clink the cannikin? ❋ Unknown (1919)

a cannikin of porridge, seasoned by the hand of his mother with good spicery, and more than half composed of double-dub, awaited his arrival. ❋ S. C. Hall (1840)

"'Aye, aye, my merry lads, it's a lively leak this; hold a cannikin, one of ye, and let's have a taste. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

'"Aye, aye, my merry lads, it's a lively leak this; hold a cannikin, one of ye, and let's have a taste. ❋ Unknown (1851)