billycan

noun

Etymology

From billy + can.

  1. inherited from *ǵneh₃-
  2. inherited from *kunnaną
  3. inherited from *kunnan
  4. inherited from cann
  5. inherited from can
  6. compounded as billycan — “billy + can

Definitions

  1. A lightweight pot for cooking or boiling water, used in camping.

    • 2010, Nontsomi Langa, A Xhosa Story: Mbengu-Sonyanganzu, in Harold Scheub, The Uncoiling Python: South African Storytellers and Resistance, page 162, When they reached the river, Nqunuse's daughter's billycan began to leak.

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