noun
- A small can or drinking vessel, typically made of metal.
Usage: Also spelled 'canniken'; Archaic or literary
Examples
- The sailor raised his cannikin in a toast to the ship's safe voyage.
- She poured ale into a small cannikin for the guest.
- The old tavern keeper kept a collection of pewter cannikins behind the bar.
- He drank from a dented cannikin as he sat by the fire.