canstick

English

Noun

canstick (plural cansticks)

(obsolete) A candlestick (candle holder).
- a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, scene 1, lines 125–128:
  I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned, / Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree, / And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, / Nothing so much as mincing poetry.

References

“canstick”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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