Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Canaster \Ca*nas"ter\, n. [Sp. canasta, canastro, basket, fr. L.
   canistrum. See {Canister}.]
   A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves,
   coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which
   it is packed in South America. --McElrath.