What is "jerrican"

Usage examples of "jerrican".

On top of that we had a 5gallon jerrican of water each--another 40 Lb.

He pulled out a jerrican of water and helped everybody fill their bottles.

Other sounds were audible, too - the slop of petrol in a half-empty jerrican, the drip of moisture from my oilskins, the rattle of tins badly stowed as the dinghy wallowed with a quick, unpredictable movement.

I thought then that it must be water in the petrol, particularly when I discovered that the jerrican I had last used was one of those that had been filled by the crofter at Carinish.

He still had the cap in his hand, and black avgas smoked where it glugged from the spout of the jerrican to go slopping toward the lip of the bank.

He carried a blanket-wrapped bundle lashed to his back and a four-gallon plastic jerrican of water in each hand.

Willie tied the biscuit tin of food to his belt and lashed the full jerrican on his back with the awning-sheet rolled above it.

They filled one jerrican to the brim, topped up their water-bottles, and drank what was left in the other jerrican.

He carried the blankets and jerrican, water bottles 258 and food tin hitched to his body, and held her good arm to support her as she plodded on blindly now, stumbling a little.

Seeing the jerrican partly hidden inside his jacket, children wheedled at Ransom with empty cups.

The cook-boy was scattering diesel from an old jerrican on to a pile of branches and in an instant a fire blazed at the edge of the clearing.

There was only a single jerrican in the back of the Land-Rover, presumably petrol, and nothing that looked as though it contained food.

We could hardly have used that much, and while Mtome undipped the spare jerrican, I jumped out and crawled underneath, cleaning the mud off the tank with my bare hands.

I would have stripped off and waded in, but as I filled the jerrican something big swirled in the moving shadow of a shoal of fish and the surface of the water was whipped to a froth, leaping glints of silver.

I wheeled the bike inside and topped up the tank from a jerrican of petrol kept there for the lawnmower.