Australia and New Zealand. A cylindrical container, usually of tin or enamel ware, with a close-fitting lid and a wire handle, used for making tea and for cooking over fires in the open, and for carrying food or liquid. (OED online)
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong Under the shade of a coolibah tree And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled, "Who'll come a-waltzing matilda with me?" --A.B. Paterson, "Waltzing Matilda"
"Billy Peddle" by Great Big Sea; "Billy's Bones" by the Pogues
Australia and New Zealand. A cylindrical container, usually of tin or enamel ware, with a close-fitting lid and a wire handle, used for making tea and for cooking over fires in the open, and for carrying food or liquid. (OED online)
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
Under the shade of a coolibah tree
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled,
"Who'll come a-waltzing matilda with me?"
--A.B. Paterson, "Waltzing Matilda"