CANTEEN (through the Fr. cantine, from Ital. cantina, a cellar)  , a word chiefly used in a military sense for an official sutler's shop, where provisions, &c., are sold to soldiers . The word was formerly applied also to portable equipments for carrying liquors and food, or for cooking in the field . Another sense of the word, which has survived to the present day, is that of a soldier's water-bottle, or of a small wooden or metal can for carying a workman's liquor, &c .