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Bucketful

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quantity contained in a bucket.

    ""I had a fire lit there, and there is a bucketful of coals. You will be pretty comfortable, I hope.""

  2. 2
    the quantity contained in a bucket wordnet
  3. 3
    A large quantity. broadly

    "But out of the water he dared not put his head; for the rain came down by bucketsful, and the hail hammered like shot on the stream, and churned it into foam; […]"

Etymology

From bucket + -ful. Compare Old English būcful, būcfull (“bucketful”).

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