billycan
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billycan (plural billycans)
- (UK, Australia, South Africa) A lightweight pot for cooking or boiling water, used in camping.
- 1997, Ian Player, Zulu Wilderness: Shadow and Soul[1], page 69:
- The filling of the billycan, cutting the supports to hang it over the fire, was a public show, but many times he would do this anyway to entertain himself. He unpacked the billycan from his old rucksack and I got out the tea and sugar. He filled the billy, then used his penknife to cut sticks to hang it over the fire.
- 2010, Kerry McGinnis, Wildhorse Creek, unnumbered page:
- Galloping a hundred yards, then jumping off and remounting an excited horse while holding a full billycan of water and beating everyone back over the starting line without spilling it sounded easy – until you tried. Billycans were lost, dropped, trampled underfoot.
- 2010, Nontsomi Langa, A Xhosa Story: Mbengu-Sonyanganzu, in Harold Scheub, The Uncoiling Python: South African Storytellers and Resistance, page 162,
- When they reached the river, Nqunuse's daughter's billycan began to leak.
- 2011, Colin Graham Smith, Shadows of War[2], page 43:
- A good billycan was one that had seen many fires, and was pitch black.
Translations[edit]
lightweight pot
References[edit]
- Swinging the Billycan: Making Tea in the Australian Bush, 2003-01-22, accessed 2007-02-16