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A driver parks in front, a woman comes out with the jerrican and a large plastic Coke bottle that has been cut in half to a cone shape and pours the gas.

Gringos in Paradise Barry Golson 2006

A driver parks in front, a woman comes out with the jerrican and a large plastic Coke bottle that has been cut in half to a cone shape and pours the gas.

Gringos in Paradise Barry Golson 2006

Kurtz had been keeping a five-gallon jerrican of gasoline in a closet.

Hardcase Simmons, Dan 2001

He pulled out a jerrican of water and helped everybody fill their bottles.

Bravo-Two-Zero McNab, Andy 1993

On top of that we had a 5gallon jerrican of water each -- another 40 Lb. We carried our NEC kit and cache rations, which weighed yet another 15 Lb. in two sandbags that had been tied together to form saddlebags that could go around our necks or over our shoulders.

Bravo-Two-Zero McNab, Andy 1993

Garcia emptied a jerrican of gasoline into the back and the two men pushed it toward the edge with the rear hatch open.

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

After an hour (comical bassoon solos over close-ups of the old recreant guzzling some horrible fermented potato-mash lobotomy out of a jerrican, wiping her mouth on her sleeve, belching) of fruitless search, our modern-day pirates head out to sea again, and up the eastern coast of the island.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

I drank tea because there was more flying to do, and rang up Billy Monkhouse at the aerodrome and asked him to bring over a jerrican of petrol.

The Rainbow and the Rose Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1958

Amazon jungle, suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure and hardly has the strength anymore to carry his 20-litre jerrican of water from the river to the house where he lives with his wife.

INTER PRESS SERVICE ,Mario Osava 2010

I had taken the first jerrican back to my home and when I came back for the second, I heard an explosion and it was like we all caught fire.

China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper 2009