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the humble jug standing between you and a long, humbling walk home
means A portable container, usually metal or plastic, designed to hold and pour gasoline or other fuels.
from A plain compound of "gas" and "can." "Gas" is the American shortening of "gasoline," itself a 19th-century commercial coinage likely built from "gas" plus the chemical suffixes "-ol" and "-ine." "Can" comes from Old English "canne," a vessel or cup, with cousins across the Germanic languages. Put together, the term simply names the can you keep your gas in — a workaday word for a workaday object.
- venting wars
- Modern spill-proof spouts were mandated by EPA emissions rules
- jerry origins
- Design stolen from German military cans in WWII
- color code
- Red for gas, yellow diesel, blue kerosene
- static danger
- Filling cans in truck beds sparks fires
jerry can — portable fuel container designed by germans in 1937, holds 20 liters, adopted by allies in wwii
wavian gas can — modern recreation of the original german jerry can design, manufactured in indiana since 1993