oil drum

noun

1. a metal drum used to contain or transport oil

Example Sentences

McGinniss alleges that Palin snorted cocaine off a 55 gallon oil drum—while snowmobiling.

From The Daily Beast

Pollution-soaked pelicans are a powerful emotional argument for getting off the oil drum.

From The Daily Beast

The charge is in a can like an oil-drum and dropped in the pipe, and then the shell dropped in on top of it.

From Project Gutenberg

We had, besides our blankets and some clothes, a kettle and an iron linseed-oil drum, with a handle made of wire.

From Project Gutenberg

It was a slow, drunken roll and as noisy as an oil drum going down the court house steps.

From Project Gutenberg

Harold had made it out of junk from the city dump, melting it in a forge he'd fashioned out of an old oil drum.

From Project Gutenberg

Into one of these an oil-drum was fixed, to be used as the fireplace, the other hole serving to hold our saucepan.

From Project Gutenberg