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bucketsful

bucketsful is the plural of bucketful.

Meaning of bucketful

Noun

bucketful (plural bucketfuls or bucketsful)

  1. The quantity contained in a bucket.
    • "I had a fire lit there, and there is a bucketful of coals. You will be pretty comfortable, I hope."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
    Synonyms:
    pailful
  2. (broadly) A large quantity.
    • But out of the water he dared not put his head; for the rain came down by bucketsful, and the hail hammered like shot on the stream, and churned it into foam; […]1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby

Questions about bucketsful

What is bucketsful the plural of?
Bucketsful is the plural of bucketful.

Words near bucketsful in the dictionary

  1. buckets of blood
  2. buckets of bolts
  3. buckets of rust
  4. buckets of sunshine
  5. buckets of syrup
  6. bucketsful
  7. bucketshop
  8. bucketshops
  9. bucketsort
  10. bucketsorts
  11. Bucketty

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