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- noun Plural form of
billy-can .
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Examples
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They straggled up to the fire, each man with a brief crisp remark, and swung their swags from their shoulders, loosening their billy-cans, which they filled at the creek before setting them beside the fire to boil.
Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush G. Firth Scott 1900
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Scattered around lay the impedimenta of their swags, their billy-cans and mining tools, in the unconcerned confusion that showed how little each one suspected his neighbour's honesty.
Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush G. Firth Scott 1900
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