Crossword clues for bucketful
bucketful
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bucketful \buck"et*ful`\, Bucketfull \Buck"et*full`\ a bucket filled with a substance, or the quantity which would fill a bucket.
Syn: bucket.
Wiktionary
n. 1 the quantity contained in a bucket 2 (context by extension English) a large quantity
WordNet
n. the quantity contained in a bucket [syn: bucket]
Usage examples of "bucketful".
When he bent to scoop up the third bucketful, it began to dawn on me what he was doing.
He squelched through the mud toward the hogs and flung them a bucketful of parsnip peelings and other such delicacies.
And as he turned around I let him have ai bucketful right in his mush.
The stumps looked swollen and he knew Jojo was eating painkillers like sweets, on top of his usual bucketful of alcohol a day.
Meanwhile the gun crews knocked out the wedges and, heaving at the tackles, ran out the culver ins On either side of the lower deck there were eight, each loaded with a bucketful of powder and a ball.
There I will return your fare money to you, and have you deposited on the beach like a bucketful of kitchen slops.
They were free passes of the kind that Sombra Brothers issued by the bucketful to swill-seeking local authorities and VIPs in every town where the carnival played.
Cat called the drugstore for an order of chocolate malted mice the class was wriggling like a bucketful of catawba worms.
I confess I was never a churchgoing man myself, sir, to my regret, but my pa always contended that a bucketful of prayer never hurt no one and my dear ma, God bless her dear soul, fair wore out her knees on the church planking.
Now it is Aeneas and Diomedes leading the fighting on opposite sides of the line, killing enemy captains by the bucketful, while Apollo and Ares urge more Trojans into the fray.
As I bustled her through the canopy, needles pushed themselves sharply into my face, and bucketfuls of water spilled off the disturbed branches.
The wind raged at them, the rain slopped in bucketfuls from stone walls, but fires burned in galleries bored deep inside stone ramparts and ox-meat cooked in iron pots dragged from the wreckage of the kitchens.
It hammered and seethed and bounced on the fort and ran from the ramparts to slop in bucketfuls on to the puddled courtyard.
Meanwhile the gun crews knocked out the wedges and, heaving at the tackles, ran out the culver ins On either side of the lower deck there were eight, each loaded with a bucketful of powder and a ball.
The second bucketful was easier, and Nylan refilled the rest of the water bottles.