What is "cannister"

Usage examples of "cannister".

Everywhere inside the hollow around the foot of the spaceship was scattered a vast quantity of all kinds of things: cans of food, oxygen bottles, cameras, tripods, cannisters.

Once the cannister has been handed to you by either my sister or myself, you are to climb that wall and run along it until you see Rudi waiting on the other side.

SPACEPORT - MAIN FORWARD BAY Chewbacca is crouched behind some supply cannisters near the main entrance to the spaceport bay.

Chewbacca jumps out from be- hind the supply cannisters, carrying Deak over his shoulder, and joins the group.

Around them were stacks and cannisters and accordion-folded blisterpacks, heaps of bottles and vials, hermetic cartons, tubes, rolls, and bags of drugs and other recreational substances.

Floyt dimly heard a few pops in the thinning atmosphere as racked, pressurized cannisters of one kind and another blew.

But he could not help flinching at the sheer brutality which that round of cannister inflicted on the dromon's crew.

Chewbacca jumps out from be hind the supply cannisters, carrying Deak over his shoulder, and joins the group.

Aziz's stick figure, like some enormous black praying mantis in the skimpy Assassin's space suit, crawled away from him to the other end of the hull, dragging the huge cannisters that contained the lifeboat's arresting gear, while Hamid-Jones played out cable.

There are the same two bricks in here, approximating the weight of the cannister you will be carrying.

Have the guns switch to cannister at three hundred meters, send a runner—" Dinnalsyn nodded "—and then go yourself, limber up all the mobile guns on the right flank—" the 75's, the breechloading field guns "—and run them over to the left.

Telling which was which at a glance wasn't easy--someone had dressed the cannisters in crocheted cosies.

The house seemed nude without the statues and without the doilies and the crocheted covers on the cannisters and the patchwork rugs.

Now she jerked the two heavy cannisters out of their clamp restraints and let the little support device bound off one side of the lowering ramp.

Ricci swiftly bound over to him and pressed the squirter of the dimethyl sulfoxide cannister clenched in his gloved fist.