Bucketful

My boss drinks coffee by the bucketful.

The doctor was sent for—came immediately—took Walter from the bed, laid him on the floor, and began pouring cold water upon him by the bucketful.

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

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; […]