Sentence:  Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. [...]  A <WSD>canister</WSD> of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A cylindrical or rectangular container usually of lightweight metal, plastic, or laminated pasteboard used for holding a dry product (as tea, crackers, flour, matches).