canaster

From Spanish canastro, from canasto (“basket”).

canaster (uncountable)

1. (tobacco) Coarse, dried tobacco leaves.
   • 1972, William Bates, George Cruikshank: the artist, the humorist, and the man, with some account of his brother Robert‎, →ISBN:

     The frontispiece to the first of these books, engraved on steel with much delicacy by Davenport, is so carefully drawn, and displays such refinement of humour, that it might be ascribed to Wilkie or Smirke; and in Knickerbocker, George could hardly then have become a misocapnist when he limned with such intense gusto the "Pipe-Plot," with its group of smoke-compelling burghers, or the "Death of Walter the Doubter," where his lymphatic Excellency, lungs and pipe exhausted together, exhales his peaceful soul in the last whiff of canaster!

• Canteras, cane rats, caterans

From cān(us) (“gray”) +‎ -aster

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaːˈnas.ter/, [kaːˈnas.tɛr]

cānaster (feminine cānastra, neuter cānastrum); first/second declension

1. grizzled.
2. half-gray.

First/second declension, nominative masculine singular in -er.

• canaster in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• canaster in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette