CANTEEN (through the Fr. cantine, from Ital. cantina, a cellar)

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CANTEEN (through the Fr. cantine, from Ital. cantina, a cellar) , a word chiefly used in a military sense for an

official

OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat.
apparitor
- APPARITOR, or APPARATOR (Latin for a servant of a public official, from apparere, to attend in public)
, from officium, office, duty)

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

BOTTLE (Fr. bouteille, from a diminutive of the Lat. butta, a
flask
- FLASK
; cf. Eng. "
butt
- BUTT
- BUTT,
  ISAAC
  - ISAAC (Hebrew for " he laughs," on explanatory references to the name, see ABRAHAM)
  (1813-1879)
")

, or of a small wooden or metal can for carying a workman's liquor, &c.

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