A roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top

Usage examples of bucket.

Leaving a dozen men with buckets, readily filled from the acequia which turned the old water wheel just across the post of No.

The two women disappeared behind the afterclap, the canvas screen at the back of the wagon, and Sarah called for the servants to bring the copper hip bath and buckets of hot water from the cooking fire.

Calling this a castle is like calling a puddle on a privy floor a lake, Alayne thought, when the bucket was opened so they might emerge within the waycastle.

Upending a bucket, Alec sat down to watch Seregil finish w ith the horse.

Sanders sat beside Aragon in the front seat, while Louise Peret, her dark hair flowing behind her in the slipstream, sat in one of the bucket seats behind.

The aspergillum he handed her was a tuft of evergreen bound to a handle of myrtlewood, stuck in a small silver bucket of holy water.

Wellington Bunn was one, ran back and forth from the water barrel, carrying the filled buckets and splashing the contents on the flames.

After he had gone, Shadow on the Frost began to shake, and to emit the familiar burble of bubbles in a metal bucket.

Rubahy made a strange, burbling noise, like bubbles rising in a very deep metal bucket, which Jak remembered from school was supposed to be the sound of laughter.

But she was mistaken, and it was brought home forcibly to her one morning in the new year when Luke deliberately kicked her bucket of milk over the cow-splattered dirty floor of the byre, after which they had stood glaring at each other.

And she surprised him still further by swinging round and throwing the empty milk bucket against the byre wall, then marching out across the yard to the cottage.

Longarm knew as he rolled the back-shot back-shooter face-up in the grass that he and Pat, between them, had killed the skinny cuss deader than a turd in a milk bucket.

However, when at last the job was done, and they tossed into the bucket the last few coins that remained, Biggles estimated that between forty and fifty thousand doubloons, moidores, and ducats, with a sprinkling of oriental pieces, had been carried.

In the dreamlet, her human figure conjured a bucket of red paint and flung it at the cowled Ghina figure.

Raf told himself and lifted a bunch of red flowers from a bucket in front of a store near the corner of al-Atarinne and Rue Faud Premier.