Canister

English Meaning

A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc.

1. A usually cylindrical storage container, especially:
2. A box or can of thin metal or plastic used for holding dry foodstuffs or cooking ingredients, such as flour or sugar.
3. A small plastic container used for storing a roll of film.
4. A metal container that holds pressurized gas, as one containing tear gas that explodes on impact or one containing oxygen as part of a breathing apparatus.
5. A metallic cylinder packed with shot that scatter upon discharge from a cannon, formerly used as an antipersonnel round.
6. Such cylinders, or the shot used in such cylinders, considered as a group.
7. The part of a gas mask that contains the filter for removing toxic agents from the air.