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A bucket is typically a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone or square, with an open top and a flat bottom, attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail.
A bucket is usually an open-top container. In contrast, a pail can have a top or lid and is a shipping container. In common usage, the two terms are often used interchangeably.
Video Bucket
Types and uses
There are many types of buckets;
- A water bucket is used to carry water
- Household and garden buckets are used for carrying liquids and granular products
- Elaborate ceremonial or ritual buckets in bronze, ivory or other materials are found in several ancient or medieval cultures and are sometimes known by the Latin for bucket, situla
- Large scoops or buckets are attached to loaders and telehandlers for agricultural and earth-moving purposes
- Crusher buckets attached to excavators are used for crushing and recycling material in the Construction Industry
- A lunch box is sometimes called a lunch pail, or a lunch bucket.
- Buckets can be re-purposed as seats, tool caddies, hydroponic gardens, chamber pots, "street" drums, or livestock feeders, or for long term food storage by survivalists
- Buckets are often used as children's toys to shape and carry sand on a beach or in a sandpit
Maps Bucket
Shipping containers
As a shipping container, the word "pail" is a technical term for a bucket shaped package with a sealed top or lid which is used as a shipping container for chemicals and industrial products.
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English literature
The bucket has been used in many phrases and idioms in the English language.
- Kick the bucket: a dysphemism for someone's death
- Drop the bucket on: implicating a person (Australian slang)
- A drop in the bucket: a small, inadequate amount in relation to how much is requested or asked
- Bucket list: a list of activities an individual wishes to undertake before death
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See also
- Bobrinski Bucket
- Mop
- Pail (container)
- There's a Hole in My Bucket
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References
- Earth Day 2008 article, Fredericksburg, VA, Free Lance-Star Newspaper [1]
- Warning [2]
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External links
- "Five-gallon farm collectibles" by Jennifer M. Latzke
- "Uses for Five Gallon Buckets
- "Utilizing a bucket for self-defense" on YouTube
Source of the article : Wikipedia