billy

noun9

1. •
   A billy goat.

   • Then, during three days, I was amazed to see nannies with kids attack and chase off large billies. — 1970
2. •
   A highwayman's club, billy club.
3. •
   (Australia, New-Zealand) A tin with a swing handle used to boil tea over an open fire; a billycan; a billypot.

   • Let's get the billy and cook some beans.
4. •
   A fellow, companion, comrade, mate; partner, brother.
5. •
   A good friend.

   • Fareweel, my rhyme-composing billie! / Your native soil was right ill-willie; / But may ye flourish like a lily, / Now bonilie! / I'll toast ye in my hindmost gillie, / Tho' owre the Sea! — 1786
6. •
   (Australia, slang) A bong for smoking marijuana.
7. •
   (slang) A condom.
8. •
   A slubbing or roving machine.

   • On the second floor there were 2 billies, 1 carding and 1 scribbling machine. — 1967
9. •
   (slang, no longer used) A silk handkerchief.

   • All fighting coves you too must know, / Ben Caunt as well as Bendigo, / And to each mill be sure to go, / […] And you must sport a blue billy, / Or a yellow wipe […] — 1859