mudbucket

mudbucket noun: a bucket intended for scooping or holding mud.

Noun

mudbucket (plural mudbuckets)

A bucket intended for scooping or holding mud.
- Instead, however, of sending out heavy dragoons, who are magnificent fellows in facing an open enemy, but who are about as much suited to the work of this colony as a first-rate frigate would be to the drawing up the mudbuckets used in deepening the Thames, the Cape Corps should have been...1844, The United Service Magazine
- "We would keep watch for him, then sweep down on him with a mudbucket full of rocks," she relates.1993, The Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener - Volumes 20-22, page 11

சேற்றுவாளி

Stabbing, doping of pipe, pulling slips, handling of the mudbucket, closing and opening of elevators, etc. are remote operations.1997, Proceedings - Offshore Technology Conference - Volume 2, page 534:
I passed a work train and cleanup gang, the mudbucket scooping gray slime from the tracks, the crew repairing the sensor wire that warns a control room in the city ...2002, Harvey Manning, Walking the Beach to Bellingham, →ISBN, page 29:

plural	mudbuckets

From mud + bucket.

What does mudbucket mean?: Mudbucket means a bucket intended for scooping or holding mud.
What is mudbucket in Tamil?: Mudbucket in Tamil is சேற்றுவாளி. See Mudbucket meaning in Tamil.
How do you use mudbucket in a sentence?: Stabbing, doping of pipe, pulling slips, handling of the mudbucket, closing and opening of elevators, etc. are remote operations.
What part of speech is mudbucket?: Mudbucket is a noun.
What is the plural of mudbucket?: The plural of mudbucket is mudbuckets.

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