Definition of "billycan" in English

noun

1. (UK, Australia, South Africa) 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.