German spelling of CANASTER 2, a kind of tobacco.
1798. Ferriar, Illustr. Sterne, 306–7. Who Knaster loves not, be he doom’d to feed With Caffres foul, or suck Virginia’s weed…. But Knaster always, Knaster is my song, In studious gloom, or ’mid th’ assembly’s throng.
1853. Blackw. Mag., LXXIV. 132. The dried leaves, coarsely broken, are sold as canaster or knaster.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., V. vii. (1872), II. 118. Long Dutch pipe in the mouth of each man; supplies of knaster easily accessible.
