Bucket

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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.

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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

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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 derogatory term 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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Unit of measurement

As an obsolete unit of measurement, at least one source documents a bucket as being equivalent to 4 imperial gallons.

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See also

• Bobrinski Bucket
• Mop
• Pail (container)
• There's a Hole in My Bucket

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References

1. Earth Day 2008 article, Fredericksburg, VA, Free Lance-Star Newspaper [1]
2. 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

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