Dixies

However, when our cooks came out with "dixies" full of steaming tea, with bread and marmalade sandwiches, they soon became reconciled. ❋ Herbert Wes McBride (N/A)

They would fetch the char and bacon from the field kitchen in the morning and clean up the "dixies" after breakfast. ❋ Robert Derby Holmes (N/A)

We had a two hours 'wait here, and the "dixies" (about a dozen in all) were filled with water, and a huge fire was lighted, and soon a "long felt want" was satisfied in the form of tea. ❋ Harold Harvey (N/A)

There were not enough "dixies" for us all to have stew the same day. ❋ Robert Derby Holmes (N/A)

While the digging was proceeding, the "dixies" were being boiled for the breakfasts inside four grass-screens, some of which we found lying about, so as to show nothing but some very natural smoke above the kraal. ❋ Ernest Dunlop Swinton (1909)

How funny it seems now, when I think of no unbuckling our dixies half a mile from Stalag, ready for soup (?). ❋ Unknown (2010)

July 30th: At last our truck door was opened and the 30 of us were told to get out - this is Rotenturm station, and marched with much clattering of tins & dixies, etc to Eisenzicken, Burgenland - 4 kilos from Hungary, where we were taken by the Burgermaster to an old converted cow-shed which was to serve as our sleeping quarters for many months. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They drank deeply inserting their icicled faces onto our dixies; nice people! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Jane had asked questions about the facilities; it looked like we were going to have dixies: chemical toilets. ❋ Nathreee (2008)

The Colonel, after hearing their complaint and inspecting some of the dixies containing the food, said he would send down food from Headquarters. ❋ Ewillett (2008)

Sir Ernest and Hussey sledged out to meet us with dixies of hot tea, well wrapped up to keep them warm. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The problem was partially solved by removing some of the water with the metal dixies we had been allowed to bring along. ❋ Unknown (1987)

In other prisons the prisoners were forced to eat with spoons out of steel dixies and in some of the most dangerous prisons even the handles of the spoons were removed. ❋ Unknown (1987)

The French were camped everywhere, but only a mile along I struck a troop of Dragoons boiling their dixies by the roadside. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1985)

Food came to the Hardmaster's hut from time to time, dixies of tea and thick meat sandwiches and biscuits and jam; as the evening went on Janet went and foraged for any food that happened to be going at the moment when she was free. ❋ Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 (1955)

Very speedily the trench fires were dug, and the dixies [2] were filled with a savoury stew; the while the men were lying about enjoying their well-earned rest. ❋ Edmund John Kennedy (N/A)

Thanks to their dirtiness, the thirsty troopers more often than not, had their tea or coffee spoilt owing to the greasy state of the dixies (cooking pots), which had not been cleaned after boiling the trek ox stew in them. ❋ P. T. Ross (N/A)

One night I remember one landed in and blew up the whole of the regimental cookhouse; luckily the cooks were sleeping elsewhere and it was only the dixies that suffered. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Battalion moved off at six, reaching er Rabah at 11, but not being able to move into its bivouac area till 1 p.m., after which camels had to be unloaded, fires lit and dixies boiled before tea could be served to the men. ❋ F. L. Morrison (N/A)