Mudbucket
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A bucket intended for scooping or holding mud.
"Instead, however, of sending out heavy dragoons, who are magnificent fellows in facing an open enemy, but who are about as much suited to the work of this colony as a first-rate frigate would be to the drawing up the mudbuckets used in deepening the Thames, the Cape Corps should have been augmented, or Light Cavalry ordered hither."
Example
More examples"Instead, however, of sending out heavy dragoons, who are magnificent fellows in facing an open enemy, but who are about as much suited to the work of this colony as a first-rate frigate would be to the drawing up the mudbuckets used in deepening the Thames, the Cape Corps should have been augmented, or Light Cavalry ordered hither."
Etymology
From mud + bucket.
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