oil drum

British  

noun

1. a metal drum used to contain or transport oil

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Example Sentences

The following summer, Miami police fished a fifty-five-gallon oil drum from a city bay.

From Literature

It depicts the Fife-born artist's best known work, The Singing Butler, which features a couple dancing on a storm-swept beach accompanied by their butler and maid, but with two figures in yellow hazmat suits disposing of an oil drum in the background.

From BBC

In May 2002, an explosion sent metal shards onto Jordan’s campus while workers were cutting an oil drum.

From Los Angeles Times

Wearing his red union baseball cap and tending the blaze inside an oil drum, Mr. Bohne, 56, looks like a scruffy Santa Claus.

From New York Times

In a statement, the court added that DNA tests of bone fragments discovered by investigators in a scorched oil drum dumped in the national park were not enough to prove the bones belonged to Pholachi, even though they matched a sample taken from Pholachi's mother.

From Reuters