See dustbin on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
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"A bin for holding rubbish until it can be collected; a garbage can."
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