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Verb
  1. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
  2. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
  3. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To be possible, usually with be.
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To know.
Noun
  1. 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.
  2. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
  3. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
  4. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet.
  5. (US, slang) A place with a toilet: a lavatory.
  6. (US, slang) Buttocks.
  7. (slang) Jail or prison.
  8. (slang) Headphones.
  9. (obsolete) A drinking cup.
  10. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
Verb
  1. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar.
  2. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
  3. To shut up.
  4. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.
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