billycan
Noun
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Noun
billycan (plural billycans)
- (UK, Australia, South Africa) A lightweight pot for cooking or boiling water, used in camping.
- 2010, Kerry McGinnis, Wildhorse Creek, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jWGci0UHDnEC&pg=PT49&dq=%22billycan%22|%22billycans%22&hl=en&ei=lOvmTrOiKsaaiAf2vfnpCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22billycan%22|%22billycans%22&f=false 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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rjHGJt53jkIC&pg=PA162&dq=%22billycan%22|%22billycans%22&hl=en&ei=AOnmTojeKo6ViQff1KDKCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22billycan%22|%22billycans%22&f=false page 162],
- When they reached the river, Nqunuse's daughter's billycan began to leak.
- 2010, Kerry McGinnis, Wildhorse Creek, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jWGci0UHDnEC&pg=PT49&dq=%22billycan%22|%22billycans%22&hl=en&ei=lOvmTrOiKsaaiAf2vfnpCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22billycan%22|%22billycans%22&f=false unnumbered page],
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