Definition of "billycan"
billycan
noun
plural billycans
(UK, Australia, South Africa) A lightweight pot for cooking or boiling water, used in camping.
Quotations
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.
1997, Ian Player, Zulu Wilderness: Shadow and Soul, page 69
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, Kerry McGinnis, Wildhorse Creek, unnumbered page