Bucket

Water well buckets

A bucket or pail is typically a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone, with an open top and a flat bottom, attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail.^[1]^[2]

History

Building materials and solvents have been packaged in large metal pails, but in recent decades plastic buckets have been greatly favored. Plastic buckets have more uses due to the popularity of plastic for food products and the tendency of metal pails to rust.

Types and uses

There are many types of buckets;

A water bucket is used to carry water
Household and garden buckets are often 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 earthmoving 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 repurposed as seats, tool caddies, hydroponic gardens, chamberpots, "street" drums, or livestock feeders, or for long term food storage by survivalists^[3]
Buckets are often used as children's toys to shape and carry sand on a beach or in a sandpit

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.^[4]

Roman bronze situla from Germany, 2nd-3rd century
A wooden bucket
German 19th century leather fire-buckets. With wood, leather was the most common material for buckets before modern times
A man carrying two buckets
A young lady carrying a bucket, drawing by German artist Heinrich Zille.
A mop bucket with a wringer.
An excavator bucket.
A crusher bucket
A helicopter bucket.
Plastic yellow bucket
A metal bucket.

English literature

The bucket has been used in many phrases and idioms in the English language.^[5]

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

References

↑ "Bucket". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
↑ Flexner, Stuart; Hauck, :epmpre, eds. (1993) [1987]. Random House Unabridged Dictionary p (hardcover) (second ed.). New York: Random House. p. 271. ISBN 0-679-42917-4.
↑ Durado, John. "Gamma Lids for Long Term Storage". Pyramid Reviews - Prepping for Life. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
↑ Soroka, W. Illustrated Glossary of Packaging Terminology (Second ed.). Institute of Packaging Professionals.
↑ "Dictionary.com, Idiomatic Phrases related to bucket". Retrieved March 18, 2013.

Earth Day 2008 article, Fredericksburg, VA, Free Lance-Star Newspaper
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