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Bucketful

noun
1.
The quantity contained in a bucket.  Synonym: bucket.






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"Bucketful" Quotes from Famous Books



... gradually break up. Returning to the symbol of the bucket, as tumbler after tumbler of water is withdrawn from it, tinted with some sort of colouring matter and returned to it, the whole bucketful of water gradually becomes richer in colour. Suppose that by imperceptible degrees a kind of vertical film forms itself across the centre of the bucket, and gradually solidifies itself into a division, so that we have now a right half and a left half to the ...
— A Textbook of Theosophy • C.W. Leadbeater

... "You'll find a bucketful on the kitchen table, and the dipper floating in it ... and there's matches on the stand by your bed." A pause. He continued: "You must of run into ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp

... finally discovered the body of the little sepiola, which had died without being missed, and was contaminating with his decay the purity of the aquarium. The water must be changed at once. I sent out the servant for a fresh bucketful from the sea, while I poured the polluted liquid ...
— Hawthorne and His Circle • Julian Hawthorne



Words linked to "Bucketful" :   containerful, bucket



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