Billycan vs Biglycan - What's the difference?
billycan | biglycan |
(UK, Australia, South Africa) a lightweight pot for cooking or boiling water, used in camping.
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(protein) A small leucine-rich repeat proteoglycan which is found in a variety of extracellular matrix tissues, including bone, cartilage and tendon
As nouns the difference between billycan and biglycan
is that billycan is (uk|australia|south africa) a lightweight pot for cooking or boiling water, used in camping while biglycan is (protein) a small leucine-rich repeat proteoglycan which is found in a variety of extracellular matrix tissues, including bone, cartilage and tendon.billycan
English
(wikipedia billycan)Noun
(en noun)page 69,
- The filling of the billycan', cutting the supports to hang it over the fire, was a public show, but many times he would do this anyway to entertain himself. He unpacked the ' billycan from his old rucksack and I got out the tea and sugar. He filled the billy, then used his penknife to cut sticks to hang it over the fire.
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- Galloping a hundred yards, then jumping off and remounting an excited horse while holding a full billycan' of water and beating everyone back over the starting line without spilling it sounded easy – until you tried. ' Billycans were lost, dropped, trampled underfoot.
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- When they reached the river, Nqunuse's daughter's billycan began to leak.
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- A good billycan was one that had seen many fires, and was pitch black.
References
*Swinging the Billycan: Making Tea in the Australian Bush, 2003-01-22, accessed 2007-02-16 *
Bushwalking.org: How to use billycans