cream can

noun, a type of can used to transport milk from the farm to the creamery

“They’re eighty pound cans, cream cans.”

“Who else was in there I don’t know, but the boat was overloaded with all them cream cans and whatever other stuff they had, beer or whatever.”

“We used to use 40 gallon milk cans, 45 gallon cans. And then they went to the little– like a cream can.”

“They had cream cans or milk cans in the boat and they’d be floating, and he’d dive down and get one and tell him to hang onto the can, and then he’d dive down and get another one.”

“Then from the little pan we put it in what we called a cream can. But now it’s, of course, the milk cans.”