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Definition of Bucketful
1. Noun. The quantity contained in a bucket.
Definition of Bucketful
1. Noun. the quantity contained in a bucket ¹
2. Noun. (context: by extension) a large quantity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bucketful
1. [n BUCKETFULS or BUCKETSFUL]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bucketful
Literary usage of Bucketful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1873)
"Yes, sir, that we is; agoin' to 'ave a regler bucketful o' fish, and no mistake
neither. I knowed it afore I roused up this mornin' and seed the way the ..."
2. British Manufacturing Industries by George Phillips Bevan, Bevan, George Phillips, 1829?-1889 (1876)
"If we dip a bucketful of water out of the sea, the water closes up and leaves
... If we pour a bucketful of water into the sea, it becomes at once common to ..."
3. Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings: With Lives by Thomas & George Allan (Firm) (1891)
"So he got a bucketful of rice and put it into the copper, filled it up with water,
... It boiled over, so he got a bucket and threw a bucketful overboard; ..."
4. Essentials of Economic Theory: As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and by John Bates Clark (1907)
"A bucketful of water on the shore of Lake Superior is of no importance to the
man who has it. If it were spilled on the sand, the man would have only to dip ..."
5. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by United States Bureau of Animal Industry (1890)
"Be satisfied with dissolving one-half ounce of bicarbonate of potassium in every
bucketful of water the animal will drink. It is well to keep a bucketful of ..."
6. Cassier's Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02877163] (1909)
"When it seems clear that this has been well clone, the weight is again elevated
and a second bucketful of concrete dropped in. The form is again pulled and ..."
7. Europe's Morning After by Kenneth Lewis Roberts (1921)
"That room cost 17 cents a day, and a bucketful of wood for the stove cost an
additional ... Feeding one bucketful of wood into the stove was like feeding an ..."
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