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Camping vs Billycan - What's the difference?

camping | billycan |

As nouns the difference between camping and billycan

is that camping is the recreational activity of while billycan is (uk|australia|south africa) a lightweight pot for cooking or boiling water, used in camping.

As a verb camping

is .

camping

English

(wikipedia camping)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • The recreational activity of .
    • Camping is a favorite summer activity.
  • The act of setting up a camp.
  • * 1848 , The North British Review (volume 9, page 17)
    • In some quarters, indeed, it was different — the troops bivouacked in many places. It was a strange and an unpleasing sight to see these campings in the heart of a city, yet it was picturesque in the extreme.

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    billycan

    English

    (wikipedia billycan)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, Australia, South Africa) a lightweight pot for cooking or boiling water, used in camping.
  • * 1997 , , Zulu Wilderness: Shadow and Soul , 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.
  • * 2010 , Kerry McGinnis, Wildhorse Creek , unnumbered page,
    • 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.
  • * 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.
  • * 2011 , Colin Graham Smith, Shadows of War , page 43,
    • 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