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waterbucket

waterbucket noun: a bucket used to hold water.

Noun

waterbucket (plural waterbuckets)

  1. A bucket used to hold water.
    • Nearly every day, Mamo made treats for them. Tea cakes, gingerbread, muffins, and the like, and on hot summer days, a big waterbucket full of lemonade.2015, Wendell Pierce, Rod Dreher, The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, a Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 33

Forms of waterbucket

pluralwaterbuckets

Origin of waterbucket

Compound of water + bucket.

Questions about waterbucket

What does waterbucket mean?
Waterbucket means a bucket used to hold water.
What part of speech is waterbucket?
Waterbucket is a noun.
What is the plural of waterbucket?
The plural of waterbucket is waterbuckets.

Words near waterbucket in the dictionary

  1. waterboys
  2. waterbrash
  3. waterbreak
  4. waterbreaks
  5. waterbuck
  6. waterbucket
  7. waterbuckets
  8. waterbucks
  9. waterbug
  10. waterbugs
  11. Waterburian

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