Billycan
Full definition of billycan
Noun
- (UK, Australia, South Africa) a lightweight pot for cooking or boiling water, used in camping.
- 1997, Ian Player, Zulu Wilderness: Shadow and Soul, %22billycans%22&hl=en&ei=2P7mTpqCAaO9iAetpZzOCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22billycan%22|%22billycans%22&f=false 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, %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, %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.
- 2011, Colin Graham Smith, Shadows of War, %22billycans%22&hl=en&ei=3-TmTsDHOLCyiQfDuqHRCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22billycan%22|%22billycans%22&f=false page 43,A good billycan was one that had seen many fires, and was pitch black.
