1. a lightweight metal container with a lid and wire handle, used for cooking or boiling water when camping
Usage: chiefly Australian and New Zealand

Examples

• The campers hung their billycan over the fire to boil water for tea.
• She packed a small billycan in her hiking gear for making coffee.
• The old billycan had been blackened by countless campfires.
• He filled the billycan with water from the stream.
• The billycan’s wire handle made it easy to lift from the coals.
• They used the billycan to cook beans over the open flame.