CANTEEN (through the Fr. cantine, fro...
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Originally appearing in Volume
V05,
Page 209
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also: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 (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
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
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal can for carying a workman's liquor, &c
.
End of Article: CANTEEN (through the Fr. cantine, from Ital. cantina, a cellar)
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