dixie
n. countablen. a large metal pot used by soldiers to cook or carry food. It is usually big enough to feed a whole group of people.
n. a large iron or tin cooking pot used by military personnel for preparing or transporting communal meals.
The cook filled the dixie with hot stew for the troops.
After a long day of training, the soldiers lined up to receive their rations from a steaming dixie.
The logistical challenge of the campaign was evident in the battered state of every dixie and kettle the regiment possessed after months in the field.
First attested in 1859. Unknown, but may come from the Mason-Dixon line, the boundary between the northern states and the southern states, or from the slang term dixie for a Louisiana $10 bill (equivalent to English tenner), in turn from French dix (ten).
Primarily used in British and Commonwealth military contexts; less common in modern civilian English.