billy

billy
/bil"ee/, n., pl. billies.
1. Also called billy club. a police officer's club or baton.
2. a heavy wooden stick used as a weapon; cudgel.
3. Scot. Dial. comrade.
4. Also called billycan /bil"ee kan'/. Australian. any container in which water may be carried and boiled over a campfire, ranging from a makeshift tin can to a special earthenware kettle; any pot or kettle in which tea is boiled over a campfire.
5. Textiles. (in Great Britain) a roving machine.
[perh. all independently derived generic uses of BILLY (male name); for Australian sense cf. Scots dial. billy-pot cooking pot]

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(as used in expressions)
Billy Bishop
Eckstine Billy
Graham Billy
Mills Billy
Mitchell Billy
Strayhorn Billy
Sunday Billy
Wilder Billy

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