<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A police officer's club or baton.</li><li>A heavy wooden stick used as a weapon; cudgel.</li><li>Scot. Dialect: comrade.</li><li>Any container in which water may be carried and boiled over a campfire, ranging from a makeshift tin can to a special earthenware kettle.</li><li>(In Great Britain) a roving machine.</li></ul><p><strong>Also Called</strong></p><ul><li>Billy club.</li><li>Billycan.</li></ul>