1889. Cassell's `Picturesque Australasia,' vol. iv. p. 69:
"A tin can, which the connoisseurs call for some reason or other a `billy.'"
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Squatter's Dream,' p. 24:
"A very black camp-kettle, or billy, of hot tea."
1892. `The Australasian,' April 9, p. 707, col. 4:
"How we praised the simple supper
(we prepared it each in turn),
And the tea! Ye gods! 'twas nectar.
Yonder billy was our urn."
<hw>Billy-can</hw>, <i>n.</i> a variation of the above, more used by townsmen than bushmen.
1892. `The Australasian,' April 9, p. 707, col. 4:
"But I said, `Dear friend and brother, yonder billy-can is mine; You may confiscate the washing that is hanging on the line, You may depredate the larder, take your choice of pot and pan; But, I pray thee, kind sundowner, spare, oh spare, my billy-can.'"
<hw>Bingy</hw> [<i>g</i> soft], <i>n</i>. stomach or belly. Aboriginal. The form at Botany Bay was <i>bindi</i>; at Jervis Bay, <i>binji</i>.