Canterbury

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A stand with divisions in it for holding music, loose papers, ·etc.

II. Canterbury ·noun A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of all England), and contains the shrine of Thomas a Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made.

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