dixies

However, when our cooks came out with "dixies" full of steaming tea, with bread and marmalade sandwiches, they soon became reconciled.

The Emma Gees Herbert Wes McBride

We had a two hours 'wait here, and the "dixies" (about a dozen in all) were filled with water, and a huge fire was lighted, and soon a "long felt want" was satisfied in the form of tea.

A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire Harold Harvey

They would fetch the char and bacon from the field kitchen in the morning and clean up the "dixies" after breakfast.

A Yankee in the Trenches Robert Derby Holmes

There were not enough "dixies" for us all to have stew the same day.

A Yankee in the Trenches Robert Derby Holmes

While the digging was proceeding, the "dixies" were being boiled for the breakfasts inside four grass-screens, some of which we found lying about, so as to show nothing but some very natural smoke above the kraal.

The Defence of Duffer's Drift Ernest Dunlop Swinton 1909

How funny it seems now, when I think of no unbuckling our dixies half a mile from Stalag, ready for soup (?).

Stan Prout 2010

July 30th: At last our truck door was opened and the 30 of us were told to get out - this is Rotenturm station, and marched with much clattering of tins & dixies, etc to Eisenzicken, Burgenland - 4 kilos from Hungary, where we were taken by the Burgermaster to an old converted cow-shed which was to serve as our sleeping quarters for many months.

Stan Prout 2010

They drank deeply inserting their icicled faces onto our dixies; nice people!

Work Camp 10760 L 2010

Jane had asked questions about the facilities; it looked like we were going to have dixies: chemical toilets.

well, that was a disappointment nathreee 2008

The Colonel, after hearing their complaint and inspecting some of the dixies containing the food, said he would send down food from Headquarters.

The First World War Memoirs of Sampson J. Goodfellow, Part 5: The Cookhouse Revolution ewillett 2008