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Definition of Dinner bucket
1. Noun. A pail in which a workman carries his lunch or dinner.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dinner Bucket
Literary usage of Dinner bucket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Missouri Division of Mine Inspection, Missouri Bureau of Mines (1892)
"Returning, as is supposed, tot shaft, he stooped over to request someone in the
bottom to bring i his dinner bucket, when the descending cage caught him. ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"... to reach out and get his dinner bucket setting on a "gob pile" in the haul-
way, whereby he lost his balance and fell under the car. ..."
3. What's on the Worker's Mind: By One who Put on Overalls to Find Out, Whiting by Whiting Williams (1920)
"... with her appetizing handiwork in my dinner-bucket, "ring in" for the day's work.
The only trouble is that with the crane man so active in bringing us ..."
4. Zoological Sketches: A Contribution to the Out-door Study of Natural History by Felix Leopold Oswald (1882)
"As soon as the dinner-bucket is brought in, the youngsters hide in the corner
and watch their opportunity, for while their seniors are feeding there is no ..."
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