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Canvas
means cloth made of hemp. To canvas a subject is to
strain it through a hemp strainer, to sift it; and to canvass a
borough is to sift the votes. (Latin, cannabis, hemp.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Canvas from Infoplease:
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