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Canister could be smaller
Answer for the clue "Canister could be smaller ", 8 letters:
scantier
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a. (en-comparative of: scanty )
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Scanty \Scant"y\, a. [Compar. Scantier ; superl. Scantiest .] Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant. His dominions were very narrow and scanty. --Locke. Now scantier limits the proud arch confine. --Pope. Somewhat less than is needed; ...
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Usage examples of scantier.
Underbrush was scantier, and trees larger, than near Sybil Brown's cottage, and the mossy groundcover, which had been cheerfully sprinkled with dogwood and saxifrage near the wizard's castle, began more and more to sprout mugwort, lousewort, fly-specked orchia, skunk cabbage, wax flowers and the deceptively demure pink bell-like blossoms of poisonous bog rosemary.
Heather and gorse were becoming scantier and stretches of lichened, shaly rock beginning to show.
The last flight of arrows had been scantier than the one before, and the nymph raised her horn again.
I hold that the more arid and unreclaimed the soil where the Christian labourer's task of tillage is appointed him -- the scantier the meed his toil brings -- the higher the honour.
Not an unusual costume in this season of warm weather, but scantier in general than was typical of unmated women nowadays.
But their scantier covering didn't surprise him nearly as much as the fact that they wore clothing at all.