A type of tobacco or a container for storing tobacco, originally from a Spanish or South American source.
From Spanish canasta (basket) plus -er, or directly from a Spanish/Portuguese word for a specific type of tobacco container used in colonial trade.
Colonial trade routes created tons of hybrid words—tobacco products from the Americas got Spanish names that stuck in English even after the trade routes closed!
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