in the sea-language, as can-pump, a vessel wherewith seamen pour water into the pump to make it go.

CAN-Buoy. See Buoy.

CAN-Hook; an instrument used to fling a cask by the ends of the flames: it is formed by fixing a broad and flat hook at each end of a short rope; and the tackle by which the cask to flung may be hoisted or lowered, is hooked to the middle of the rope.