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Plus soup, tinned meat, crackers, chocolate and a billycan to boil up in.'

Before panic could set in she realised that the fire was burning merrily again and that a billycan of water was starting to steam.

Inside that stout little tent was a very efficient camping-gas burner, complete with kettle, billycan, matches, tea bags and powdered milk.

The term billy or billycan is particularly associated with Australian usage, but is also used in the UK and Ireland.

With the aid of a big barbecue, small gas ring and blackened billycan, Craig produced one of the oddest meals I have ever confronted.

They sent a water-bottle to be passed round among die prisoners, and, for Rodolfo, a billycan of chopped meat and beans with dun cornmeal cakes.

Everyone stared at him, dumbfounded, then Naylor, the stage worker, said, "We've got a Primus and a billycan back there.

He descended the hill daily to Heidelberg village for meals before jaunting into the bush with a billycan of milk and swag of paints and canvases.

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.

When Charlie eventually reached the front of the queue, he held out his billycan to receive a ladle of lumpy porridge and a stale piece of bread.

When I had eaten the first course of cabbage, and the second of meat pudding, potato and carrots, I poured cold water into my used billycan and put it on the lighted stove.

Light weight alcohol stove such as a beverage can stove or solid fuel stoves instead of heavier gas stoves and a single cook pot ("billycan") with a single spoon instead of a traditional mess kit.

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.

These are then placed in a billycan with a couple of tablespoons of water in the bottom and the lid pushed firmly in place before being set on the embers of an open fire and baked for twenty minutes.

A billycan, more commonly known simply as a billy or occasionally as a billy can (billy tin or billy pot in Canada), is a lightweight cooking pot which is used on a campfire or a camping stove.

A solid-fuel stove may consist of no more than a metal base plate and container to hold the fuel, a set of legs to keep this assembly out of contact with the ground, and some supports for a billycan or other cooking vessel.

Before Billy can say much about it, he's back there himself.

He felt around blindly for food or a billy can of water.

The man says that Billy can stay with him on his boat as they are going in the same direction.

The text says, "Billy can be very difficult to please."

If he doesn't then he and Billy can live there.

Still on her knees, she crossed to the billy can and stooped over it.

But all Billy can do is flail his arms and gurgle.

"Because Billy can shield himself, and he wasn't the one dating half the monster."

Billy can measure time only by the click the wheels make as they go over a seam in the track.

Soon Billy can eat all he wants while losing weight, and the judge and police chief are no longer fit to be seen in public.

Pete is more accurate while Billy can draw faster.

Today when women gather bush tucker, they usually use a billy can, bucket or flour tin.

In his father's presence, Billy can never find words for the intricate tangle of his emotions.

The trapped men scrawled last notes to their loved ones on billy cans before they drowned.

"Maybe next time Billy can join us," Sarah said.

"Most of the boys know I despise violence, and Billy can get violent when he thinks somebody's taking on over me."

John has occasionally appeared as a spirit that only Jack and Billy can see and hear.

That's eight, but Billy can sit on someone's lap and we can all squash together."

She placed the billy can on the floor, then tipped the lump of maize cake into the dirt beside it.

Not many guys could, but Billy can."

He agrees to get her on the show, if Billy can sink a hook shot from beyond the half-court line, which he does.

'Billy can motivate players better than anyone I know.'

Patrick brought out the billy can, scraped aside all the dead grass, built a small fire out of wood and bark.

I dashed back in to make Dad his sandwiches and pour his tea into his billy can.

The Billies were league champions in 1923 with a record of 82-42.

They're using portable billies up forward, but the flooding's way ahead of them.

Their way was barred by three guards with billies.

Silly billies: mob of young cubs yelling their guts out.

Billies feature in many of Henry Lawson's stories and poems.

Quality billies are often made from either stronger materials or protected by hard anodised surfaces.

Harry and I stepped forward, our billies raised.

In their hands they bore short billies.

Weight: Billies are typically made from aluminium, stainless steel or titanium,.

"For Pete's sake-it's a whole flock of those silly billies!"

The new billies had the advantage over the old ones that they left no open wounds, but operated dryly, almost silently.

Knives, billies, and such did not count.

As with fights between billies during breeding season, these conflicts can occasionally lead to injury or even death, but they are largely harmless.

They marched two abreast, swinging their long locust-wood billies.

They constructed their own traditional style of house, Dutch Billies, with gables that faced the street.

Rather the name, Billies, was used by the local media when referring to the team in Williamsport.

Two of them hefted police-type billies, one bore a sawn-off pool cue.

The new arteries would pass the slide by dynamiting through Billies Mountain, also along the north canyon wall.

Of younger feminists, Ms. Billies said: "We have our own ideas about what is important.

Billies and nannies look similar.

The cut through Billies Mountain was described by the construction crews as a new, man-made mountain pass.

"When chapman billies leave the street"

Only seven teams participate this season; as the Williamsport Billies permanently left the league.

They became known as 'bouncing billies' because of their lack of air-brakes and safety concerns.

Both billies (males) and nannies (females) have horns.