mudbuckets

Noun

mudbucket (plural mudbuckets)

1. 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