billycan

“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.”

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“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.”

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

Simon & Schuster: Long Way Down

“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

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

King Rat

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

King Rat

“I filled our largest billycan, holding about a gallon, slung it over the fire and added, as the wood burnt down, charcoal, till the top was covered to a depth of two inches.”

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