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fire-bucket

fire-bucket is the alternative spelling of fire bucket.

Meaning of fire bucket

Noun

fire bucket (plural fire buckets)

  1. A bucket holding water or sand, etc., used to extinguish fires.
    • Fire buckets with the initials S.D.J.R. were still in evidence when the author visited the station in August, 1957.1958 July, Colin G. Maggs, “The East Somerset Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 464

Forms of fire-bucket

pluralfire-buckets

Questions about fire-bucket

What is fire-bucket the alternative spelling of?
Fire-bucket is the alternative spelling of fire bucket.

Words near fire-bucket in the dictionary

  1. fire-bote
  2. fire-botes
  3. fire-breather
  4. fire-breathers
  5. fire-breathing
  6. fire-bucket
  7. fire-buckets
  8. fire-capped tit
  9. fire-capped tits
  10. fire-cracker
  11. fire-crotch

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