What is "buckets"

Usage examples of "buckets".

Electrically-operated telphers, suspended from a timber trestle, hoisted the buckets, and, traveling on a mono-rail track, deposited them on wagons for transportation to the dock.

After that there was nothing to do but cling to the side of the Beanstalk, watch the sweep of the heavens above us, and wait for the outbound ore buckets to come past us.

Maia saw buckets of seawater still being drawn to extinguish embers from the fire that had nearly sent the ship down.

Even after all seemed in perfect order, Maia watched the buckets warily for a while to be sure.

Her stints below, shoveling coal into the ever-hungry buckets, had been like sentences to hell.

The interminable stripping off in draughty buildings and the washing of hands and chest in buckets of cold water, using scrubbing soap and often a piece of sacking for a towel.

At any moment, we had nearly four hundred buckets climbing the Stalk and the same number going down.

Forget the carrier buckets, and the superconducting cables that carried electricity down to the drive train from the solar power satellite seventy thousand kilometers above us.

I began to turn the drive train, so that the buckets began to move up and down along the length of the Beanstalk.

I think they were afraid that we would reverse the direction of the buckets, and bring the bomb back down to Earth to disarm it.

We had to leave the ore in there, because the mass balance between ingoing and outbound buckets was closely calculated to give good stability to the Beanstalk.

In the next fifteen minutes we have to get our suits on, over to the ore buckets, and into these harnesses.

As we talked, we kept our eyes open for the outbound buckets, passing us on the other side of the Beanstalk.

We settled down to look in more detail at the configuration of cables, drive train, repair stations and buckets that was being flashed to us over the suit videos.

I hoped that Jen and Larry would keep their attention up, watching an endless succession of buckets flash past them and checking each one for radioactivity count.