What is "canteens"

Usage examples of "canteens".

Bodies, guns, canteens, pouches, haver-sacks, spent cannon balls, dead horses, the wounded.

Sir filled each of their canteens from a tank of water in the bed of the pickup.

Pendanski filled all the canteens, then climbed back into the cab of the pickup.

Sir was filling the canteens, I snuck into the truck and stole his sack of sunflower seeds.

We had no other tools for this than our ever-faithful half canteens, and nothing wherewith to wall the wells.

They had smuggled in some canteens of a cheap, vile whisky made from sorghum--and they grew quite hilarious in their Big Tent over their potations.

Rations of bread and of wood, articles of clothing, and the wretched little cans and half canteens that formed our cooking utensils, were still stolen, but all these were in a sneak-thief way.

We even had to take off our canteens and tin cups, that they might not rattle against our bayonets.

We dug the wells with case and pocket knives, and half canteens to a depth of from twenty to thirty feet, pulling up the dirt in pantaloons legs, and running continual risk of being smothered to death by the caving in of the unwalled sides.

Marcus took canteens from the dead guardsno telling how long the Romans might wander this labyrinth.

Instead they leaned on their axes and rested, crushing flies, gulping winter water from canteens, binding up wounds, and fanning at themselves to cool down before the battle began again.

Their hands overflowed with tin canteens, horse bridles, a knitted shawl, and other junk.

However, you can pour it between canteens a few times to improve taste.