lading-can

noun

A tin can (containing two or three quarts) used for taking hot water out of a boiler.

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Meanings

nounlading-can (plural lading-cans)

plural lading-cans

  1. dialectalhistoricalA tin can (containing two or three quarts) used for taking hot water out of a boiler.

    Hurriedly taking off her bodice, she crouched at the boiler while the water ran slowly into her lading-can.

    1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 5”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC
  2. dialectalhistoricalA smaller vessel, often graduated for volume, used by traditional grocers for measuring goods such as sugar or rice from bulk to retailable quantities; a piggin.
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