Read full poem →To colours like a peacock's eyes,
And half-submerged tomato-cans
Shine scaly, as leviathans
Dictionary Entry
A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. canscans tincans garbagecans beercans trashcans twocans aluminum
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Poetry examples for “cans”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →«e life, to my disgrace be it spoken, I have saved — vili
lem of an empty cask, much sound, no contents — cans
i forget the mouldy crusts, Suffolk cheese, and i
Read full poem →always either in blossom or full of oranges. My parents had a picnic basket
and a metal chest. In the metal chest were frozen cans of fruit on dry ice,
and in the picnic basket were weenie and liverwurst and salami sandwiches,
Read full poem →Butler Samuel A ins 1411 Lehigh Pkway S 4-3539
Butler William J r 937 Hanover av. cans eens
Butt J Scott Rev r 136 S 14 ewe ee eo d2 1964
Read full poem →The group of children with the beer served these knights of dynamite,
holding up the cans for them to drink. The little cup-bearers were then
given pennies. They scurried home.