mess kit
mess tin

The only result of fifteen minutes' fire was a hole in a mess kit.

I piled my mess kit high and found a quiet place to eat.

By this time, most of the unit was on its feet, lined up with mess kits in hand.

The summer mess kit is a white jacket, almost identical between different parts of the army.

Our mess kits were almost full and we gulped it down like animals.

Places for everyone were set with plates and utensils from a mess kit John had bought.

Each mess kit had a Morse code letter inscribed on it.

"Last year, I went out in the woods and found stuff from the festival, things people left, like old mess kits.

Each tribe member would retrieve one mess kit, then swim back to the beach.

It is also known as mess uniform and mess kit.

The Australian Army has mess kits for summer and winter.

The tin cups looked as if they came from a standard Army mess kit, but the plates were china.

With all that in their mess kit, they aren't going to be bothering us any time soon."

With bayonets, mess kits, anything if they were not.

He didn't seem to have a mess kit.

"Especially in a dress blue uniform or mess kit.

The mess kit was an ornate, formal dress uniform for evening wear.

"If I were to stay I really would get into everybody's mess kits."

Campers will find rain gear, tents and authentic mess kits.

Worn by personnel not in possession of mess kit, which is purchased at the member's expense.

He dug in his own mess kit and chose a hardtack biscuit.

He got his mess kit and went over to the stew pot Perseus had bubbling.

I put the piece of meat back into the mess tin.

He would have thrown the mess tin at anyone who tried to give it to him.

The men had mess tins; it was like being back on active service.

Someone brought me a mess tin half full of very hot tea; it tasted good.

He filled his mess tin and ate with good appetite.

Here, he wolfed it down and held out his mess tin for more.

"You, at least, are sure to see her again," he said, opening his mess tin.

So was the second, but in the third he found something valuable: a mess tin and a box of matches.

One arm tight against the chain, the other pushing the mess tin across the floor.

She handed him the mess tin as he squatted opposite her.

Nothing gave you food poisoning faster than eating out of a dirty mess tin.

The geometry of the older British mess tins was substantially different.

We opened our mess tins, and ate huddled in the snow.

The veteran sat down on a heap of rubble, and opened his mess tin.

When my turn comes, I open my mess tin.

He would loan them mess tins if they did not have them.

He scooped up the metal mess tin with the cold remains of the soup in it.

Mess tins were originally a military design, but are also popular among civilian campers.

He reached for one of the mess tins.

The polish and the dusters were folded neatly back into the mess tin.

The mess tin went back into the cupboard.

Some kind of a beef stew in a metal mess tin, one for each of them.

And if they ever run out of guns and ammunition, they'll try to beat us to death with their mess tins.

His answer was garbled, but he eagerly tried to grab the mess tin filled with water that I offered him.

We closed our mess tins, still half full of food, and hooked them onto our belts.