The dixies were then taken forward and the meal served out in equal shares according to the numbers to be provided for.
The company system was therefore reverted to, and the dixies brought into use in kitchens constructed outside the trenches.
The dinners were served out and the dixies carried away, still in peace.
It was not long before a party of soldiers appeared carrying two dixies of soup, a plateful of which was handed up.
Leaving the hot steaming dixies of tea behind them and stuffing their letters in their pockets the Australians in the cold damp morning, unaided by tanks or barrage, set out to attack.
Sergeant Brennan, who used to be in the Dublin Fusiliers, and whose camp kitchens at Liverpool have often been admired by Sydney visitors, was in charge of the cooks and dixies of the 7th Light Horse.
We bivouacked at Aaron's Gorge, or the Petrified Forest, or in a desert waste, and always George was on the spot with his dixies and pans.
Directly breakfast was over I filled the dixies again and kept them ready for dinner.
Dixies and tea-cans were flung on one side, our tea spilt, fires put out, and the order given to stand to our guns and horses, everyone to prepare for action.
When the water in the vicinity of the trenches is bad, water waggons are brought down along with the ration waggons, and the men's canteens and a number of dixies or camp kettles are filled with water and sent into the trenches.
We halted about seven in the morning to feed and water the horses and make tea for the men in their dixies or oval camp kettles.
Then from the communication trenches came dixies or iron pots, filled with steaming tea, which had two wooden stakes through their handles, and were carried by two men.
The men who did not obtain leave are carrying the iron cookingdixies for those four miles.
Only a hundred and fifty yards away from you the German cook must be fitting his old browned and burned dixies and kerosene tins over their early morning fire.
On a level space bordering the line a dozen or more fires were blazing merrily, and dixies with some boiling liquid were being carried backwards and forwards.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dixies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
