hot water can

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hot water can (plural hot water cans)

  1. (historical) A can (often with a spout and handle) filled with hot water, used to warm a room, to keep one's feet warm, or to supply water for such things as shaving, washing, etc.
    • 1889, Helen Harcourt, chapter 11, in Home Life in Florida‎, Louisville, Kentucky: John P. Morton, page 178:
      The rest of us were glad to creep between blankets, with a mountain of covers on top, and a hot water can inside. What a tale to tell of balmy Florida!
    • 1899, “Australian Prison Discipline,” condensed from an article in Colonial Empire, Shanghai, in Public Opinion, New York, Volume 26, No. 6, p. 174,
      A third warder proceeds along the doors with a hot water can, and each prisoner who by good conduct has earned the privilege of tea and sugar is supplied with the water to make his tea.
    • 1908, E. M. Forster, A Room with a View‎, Part 1, Chapter 3, p. 50:
      “Oh, dear Miss Honeychurch, you will catch a chill! And Mr. Beebe here besides. Who would suppose this is Italy? There is my sister actually nursing the hot-water can; no comforts or proper provisions.”
    • 1910, William J. Locke, A Christmas Mystery‎, New York: John Lane, page 28:
      After weary waiting at Plymouth they took their seats in the little, cold local train that was to carry them another stage on their journey. Hot-water cans put in at Plymouth mitigated to some extent the iciness of the compartment.
    • 1942, Siegfried Sassoon, chapter 3, in The Weald of Youth‎, London: Faber & Faber, published 1943, page 44:
      Anyhow, here I am […] quite in the mood to revisit one of those Queen Anne country houses where I awoke on the morning after a dance and drowsily observed the discreet man-servant putting a hot-water can into the hip-bath, wondering whether he was expecting me to give him half-a-sovereign or whether five bob would be decent […]

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