What is "bucketlike"

Usage examples of "bucketlike".

Shortly after they had finished with the rods their door opened and two warriors, lighting their way with candles, appeared escorting a slave who bore food in bucketlike receptacles and water in bottles made of glazed pottery.

There was an assortment of cables on which the bucketlike car operated, but no track.

It was a preposterous sight: the massive rump of the horse, the bounding cans and the soldier’s bucketlike helmet topping it all.

He gave the table another silent thump and leaned back in the oddly shaped, bucketlike piece of furniture which served his kind as a chair.

The next door led to another long, dark chamber, this one featuring huge iron bucketlike apparati and, beneath them, devices that resembled huge stoves—stoves lacking grills or burners suited for cooking food.

It was his job to wet the line with a small bucketlike container, called a piggin, once the whale was harpooned.

Unfortunately, the bucketlike boot was so heavy that Sophie staggered as she landed.

She curled in a bucketlike chair near one of the two observation posts and watched Clarke Orbital Platform and the nighttime globe beyond it sparkle in the darkness, seeming to roll in slow circles that were actually the result of the habitation wheel's spin.