Citations:dixey

English citations of dixey

• 1904, Thomas Charles Wetton, With Rundle's Eighth Division in South Africa, page 75:

  each carrying a “dixey” (camp kettle) of water from a neighbouring spruit for the regiment's evening meal, lost their way in the darkness close to the Boer lines

• 1915 April 25, “Many Patriotic Services Reported At Big Meeting Of Toronto Liberal Women”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

  The government provided the stoves, the large camp pans and "dixeys" and a large refrigerator.

• 1915, R. W. Campbell, Private Spud Tamson, page 234:

  Fancy delivering cans of hot tea and dixeys of good stew to the front trenches at midnight !

• 1917, John Ernest Hodder-Williams, One young man: the simple and true story of a clerk who enlisted ..., page 35:

  All food is fetched in dixeys (large boilers), and tea, stew, and bacon are all cooked in turn in these, so if the orderlies don't wash them clean at dinner time we have greasy, stewy tea.

• 1917, Marcel Berger, The ordeal by fire, page 150:

  When I came back, tidied up and much refreshed, coffee had been brought. The tin drinking cups were plunged at will into the "dixeys." It was scalding!

• 1946, Robert Harling, The Steep Atlantick Stream, page 100:

  No longer was my squeamish stomach made more squeamish by the sight of dixeys or mugs of thick brown brew.