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Definition of Cansticks
1. canstick [n] - See also: canstick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cansticks
Literary usage of Cansticks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London and Middlesex: Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive Survey of by Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale (1810)
"... or to suppurate ; but by laying strong cansticks on them, the Surgeons had,
it seems, hopes to break them ; which cansticks were then upon him, ..."
2. Transactions by Ecclesiological Society, William Angus Knight, Wordsworth Society (1900)
"... beam of latten at St. Lawrence, Reading, " with x cansticks 1 For other
instances of pairs of candlesticks'of precious metal see William BDD Turnbull. ..."
3. Archaeologia Cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society (1876)
"... crosse of copper Item two payer of olde sencers of latten Item a hale water
stope of latten Item two cansticks of latten Item two ..."
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