dixie
A large iron pot, used in the army.
Noun
- A large iron pot, used in the army.
- four men generally like to mess together, and one cooking pot among them takes the place of a mess-tin or "dixie" - 1903, Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Royal Commission on the War in South Africa, H.M. Stationery...
- Then from the communication trenches came dixies or iron pots, filled with steaming tea, which had two wooden stakes through their handles, and were carried by two men. - 1917, Arthur Guy Empey, Over the Top:
- And what those ‘dixies’ of hot tea signified no one knows who wasn't there to wait for them. - 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, page 261:
Origin
From Hindi देगची (degcī, “a kettle, a metallic cooking pot”), from Classical Persian دیگچه (degča, “a pot, small cauldron”), from دیگ (deg, “pot”) + ـچه (-ča).