A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
Jail or prison.
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.
A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
Buttocks.
Headphones.
A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
A chimney pot.
An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
To have the potential to; be possible.
To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.
Used with verbs of perception.
May; to be permitted or enabled to.
To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
To fire or dismiss an employee.
To shut up.
To know how to; to be able to.
To seal in a can.
To hole the ball.
To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
The boss canned him for speaking out.
A small, usually round container used to hold the host (“consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist”), especially when bringing communion to the sick or others unable to attend Mass.
A box used in a mint as a place to deposit sample coins intended to have the fineness of their metal and their weight tested before the coins are issued to the public.
A (small) box; a casket, a coffret.
To enclose (something) in a box or other container; specifically, to place (a deceased person's body) in a coffin; to coffin, to encoffin.
To deposit (sample coins) in a pyx; (by extension) to test (such coins) for the fineness of metal and weight before a mint issues them to the public.