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A billycan, more commonly known simply as a billy or occasionally as a billy can, is the traditional Australian utensil for boiling water, making tea and cooking anything liquid on a campfire. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ...
Wikibooks Transwiki has more about this subject: Campfire A campfire in a fire pit A campfire is a fire lit at a campsite, usually in a fire ring. ...
What is a 'billy'?
a billy is the name for someone named billy or frank.
Orange if billy is the name of a carrot then billy will be orange, or frank.
yogurt mmmmmmmmmmmmm yogurt or frank
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Using a billy Billy tea is made by boiling the water in a billy, adding the tea immediately after removing the billy from the fire, and allowing the tea to draw for a time. Then often one of several methods is employed to make the tea-leaves settle to the bottom of the billy before pouring, preferably into mugs known as pannikins. Tea leaves in a Chinese gaiwan. ...
"Billy Tea" "Billy Tea" is also the registered brand name of a popular brand of tea long sold in Australian grocers and supermarkets, but this Billy Tea makes equally good tea in a teapot, and conversely any good black tea will make well in a billy. A Chinese Yixing Zisha teapot A Chinese Zisha teapot - Melon A modern teapot A Japanese cast iron teapot, also known as a Tetsubin A teapot is a vessel in which to brew tea leaves with hot or boiling water, either inside a tea bag or loose, in which case a...
To boil the billy most often means to make tea, but coffee is also made occasionally, either instead of or as well as.
Etymology There are many theories on the origin of 'billy': - It was derived from the local indigenous language billa, meaning creek.
- It was derived from North of England slang 'billy', meaning mate.
- A corruption of 'bally': Scots language meaning milk-pail.
- Large 'bully beef' cans may have been cleaned out to become the first billys. This became 'bullycans' then 'billycans'.
This is a language that is native to a region and spoken by indigenous peoples. ...
Creek can be: A native American tribe, see Creek (people) The language of that tribe, see Creek language In US and Australian usage, a waterflow, smaller than a river, see Creek (stream) In UK usage, a tidal watercourse, usually drying to little or no flow at low tide, see Creek...
Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speakers dialect or language. ...
Mate may refer to: Relationships: Mate (term), a term for a friend, especially in the United Kingdom and Australasia; also used to address strangers One of a pair of animals, sometimes also applied to a human partner; see mating Nautical: A deck officer on a merchant marine vessel, usually ranked...
Scots refers to the Anglic varieties spoken in parts of Scotland. ...
Corned beef is a cut of beef (usually brisket, but sometimes round) cured or pickled in a seasoned brine. ...
Methods of settling the leaves There are two common methods for settling the leaves; one more spectacular than the other.
The first method is simply to tap the side of the billy with a stick until the leaves settle.
The second, more dramatic method, is to stand away from any overhead obstructions and swing the billy in a vertical circle.
The billy in Australian literature
Henry Lawson A billy features in many of Henry Lawson's stories and poems. Some examples: Henry Lawson, circa 1902 Henry Lawson (17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and poet. ...
The swagman tramping ’cross the plain; Good Lord, there’s nothing sadder, Except the dog that slopes behind His master like a shadder; The turkey-tail to scare the flies, The water-bag and billy; The nose-bag getting cruel light, The traveller getting silly. - But What’s the Use.
"'I’m going to knock off work and try to make some money,' said Mitchell, as he jerked the tea-leaves out of his pannikin and reached for the billy." - Mitchell’s Jobs.
"The hatter warmed up the tea-billy again, got out some currant buns, which he had baked himself in the camp-oven,..." - The House that was Never Built
"Then he made a fire in the kitchen, and hung the kettle and a big billy of water over it." - A Child in the Dark, and a Foreign Father
"I started early, and Mary caught up to me at Ryan’s Crossing on Sandy Creek, where we boiled the billy and had some dinner." - ‘Water Them Geraniums’.I. A Lonely Track.
"Mitchell and I turned off the track at the rabbit-proof fence and made for the tank in the mulga. We boiled the billy and had some salt mutton and damper." - The Lost Souls’ Hotel
"Brewing his tea in a billy-can under the bough of a shady tree." - The Swagman by Elaine Bannister.
"Then he went to the camp-fire to try some potatoes which were boiling in their jackets in a billy, and to see about frying some chops for dinner." - The Loaded Dog.
I mind the days we played at camp With billy-can and swag,... - The “Soldier Birds”
"Then he lifted his swag quietly from the end of the floor, shouldered it, took up his water-bag and billy, and sneaked over the road, away from the place, like a thief." - An Incident at Stiffner’s
Banjo Paterson Banjo Paterson's most famous of many references to the billy is surely in the first verse and chorus of Waltzing Matilda: Andrew Barton Banjo Paterson (February 17, 1864 – February 5, 1941) was a famous Australian bush poet, journalist and author. ...
Waltzing Matilda is usually sung in informal settings, but it was played with a 90 piece orchestra and the 100 voice Melbourne Chorale at the 2005 Classical Spectacular Waltzing Matilda is Australias most widely known folk song, and one that has been popularly suggested as a potential national anthem. ...
"And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled..."
References - Emerson, Ken (w), "The Warrumbunglers" The Warrumbunglers Bushed! 1983 The Dominion Press - Hedges and Bell (23-24)
1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
External links - [|brislib] (2003-01-22), 'Swinging the Billycan' - Making Tea in the Australian Bush. Retrieved on 2007-02-16
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