Definition of "milk-can" []

• A large can for carrying milk to market or to customers. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Corliss obeyed wonderingly, stepping aside from the beaten path, lying down in the snow, and dipping into the water-hole with an empty condensed milk-can."
• "They are no bigger than ordinary large milk-can lids, and of the same form; they are loose, as with a milk-can, and are put on in the same way."
• "They had only a little round opening on the top, closed with an aluminium lid, which fitted exactly like the lid of a milk-can."