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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 209 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CANTEEN (through the Fr. cantine, from Ital. cantina, a cellar)  , a word chiefly used in a military sense for an See also:official See also:sutler's See also:shop, where provisions, &c., are sold to soldiers . The word was formerly applied also to portable equipments for carrying liquors and See also:food, or for cooking in the See also:field . Another sense of the word, which has survived to the See also:present See also:day, is that of a soldier's See also:water-See also:bottle, or of a small wooden or See also:metal can for carying a workman's liquor, &c .

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