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  • noun UK, Australia, South Africa a lightweight pot for cooking or boiling water, used in camping.

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Examples

  • Or the evening when a Peshawari nightwatchman shared his billycan of sweet milky tea with me while I waited for the telegraph office to telex copy.

    Pakistan cricket can never have home advantage in soulless Emirates | Mike Selvey 2012

  • I added enough water to make a stiff paste and stirred thoroughly, then shaped the resulting green goo into cookies and placed them on a billycan lid to “bake” in the sun.

    Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009

  • I added enough water to make a stiff paste and stirred thoroughly, then shaped the resulting green goo into cookies and placed them on a billycan lid to “bake” in the sun.

    Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009

  • Slice the vegetables using a Leatherman or Swiss army knife; place them carefully in a billycan and add lots of water.

    Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007

  • Slice the vegetables using a Leatherman or Swiss army knife; place them carefully in a billycan and add lots of water.

    Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007

  • Slice the vegetables using a Leatherman or Swiss army knife; place them carefully in a billycan and add lots of water.

    Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007

  • Slice the vegetables using a Leatherman or Swiss army knife; place them carefully in a billycan and add lots of water.

    Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007

  • He pushed a few twigs into the embers of the previous night's fire, then rummaged in his small emergency pack for the last of his tea bags while Sapper placed the smoke-blackened billycan back on the burgeoning flames.

    The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995

  • A deft tap with the parang split the coconut in two perfect halves and spilled the milk into a billycan.

    King Rat Clavell, James, 1924- 1962

  • Peter Marlowe carried a billycan filled with scraps of leaves that had been foraged.

    King Rat Clavell, James, 1924- 1962

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