lading-can
English
Noun
lading-can (plural lading-cans)
- (dialectal, historical) A tin can (containing two or three quarts) used for taking hot water out of a boiler.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 5
- Hurriedly taking off her bodice, she crouched at the boiler while the water ran slowly into her lading-can.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 5
- (dialectal, historical) A 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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