jerrycan , also: jerrican
petrol can BrE

On the fire, the jerrycan from the car was shooting steam.

"Those people dropped their jerrycan of water a while back.

I went to the car and took the jerrycans.

A 20-litre jerrycan of poor quality water has quadrupled in price.

He picked up two of the jerrycans and walked softly towards the house.

But water can readily be carried in heavier plastic jerrycans.

One jerrycan filter can provide water for four people over a three-year span.

When revelations came about houses were searched, with around 120 jerrycans uncovered.

The plane had carried a jerrycan filled with water.

One of his neighbors sells gas from a jerrycan.

Actually, he was stealing my backpack and two jerrycans.

Henry reached back, grabbed one of the 5-gallon plastic jerrycans, and slid it up next to him.

The four-gallon jerrycan we kept as a spare would now come in really useful.

The second essential is a set of reconditioned steel jerrycans for gasoline.

"We can soon fix that," he said, reaching behind the back seats for a large jerrycan and plastic cup.

He picked up three jerrycans full of gasoline and put them in the back of the van.

Each will receive a blanket, soap, a jerrycan for water or fuel and a bag of rice.

Even before protests swept our country, people queued for hours clutching jerrycans.

Japan provided $80,000 worth of supplies, including tents and jerrycans.

Amid the rectangular huts, another gunman shook a black jerrycan.

Jerrycans and munitions were also exploding, aggravating the already dangerous situation.

I climbed to my feet and kicked the jerrycan of alcohol out of sight under the table.

The development of the jerrycan was a significant improvement on earlier designs, which required tools and funnels to use.

Our jerrycans held 20 liters of drinking water and the same amount of extra gas.

Pleiss ordered the second of his three jerrycans flown to London.

Petrol can be purchased from the council workshop during business hours.

He'd got to meet Kitty, talk to her, handle the petrol can.

It was the sound a petrol can makes whilst being emptied.

The petrol can and paint cannister were later found among the debris.

You must not carry spare (full) petrol cans in your vehicle.

Inside the garage, a clearly disturbed Victoria spotted a petrol can.

He was angry and banged his fist on the wall of petrol cans.

I'll shove a petrol can in the back.

Taking only a petrol can full of water, I crept down to the shore, using a jetty as cover.

They point out that the experience of Iraq demonstrated the ease with which petrol can be smuggled across land borders.

Firemen found empty petrol cans and gas cylinders at the scene.

The piece of paper flared and he flung it away from him amongst the petrol cans.

A single wall of petrol cans against the real wall was undetectable from the air.

Air is permed above an open petrol can.

Denny approached from the opposite direction, carrying the petrol can and toolbox.

Quietly he pulled three glass bottles and a green plastic petrol can from the holdall at his feet.

Burned under pressure as a vapour mixed with air, petrol can be one of the most efficient fuels.

The boatman got down into the motor boat and began passing up petrol cans to Ross.

But he return to capture them, so Tamara throws a petrol can and causes an explosion to escape.

He ran on tiptoe to the petrol cans.

Groups of young men sitting on the ground near a closed library, reading and talking by the light of flares in petrol cans.

My father took a battered red petrol can from his robing cupboard and carried it to the communion table.

The latter was carrying a petrol can.

A large airbase, including huge navigation arrows laid out in army petrol cans, can still be seen.

Petrol can take care of himself.