oil drum
Britishnoun
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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
Months earlier, in May 2002, Atlas workers were cutting an oil drum, sparking an explosion that sent metal shards onto Jordan’s campus.
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
The remains were found in a burned oil drum that had been sunken in a reservoir in the park.
From Seattle Times
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