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bucketful|ˈbʌkɪtfʊl|
[f. bucket n.1 + -ful.]
As much as a bucket will hold. Also transf. and quasi-adv.
a1563Becon New Catech. (1844) 39 All people are in comparison of him as a drop to a bucket-full. 1656Trapp Comm. Matt. vii. 11 He will pour out..as it were by pails or buckets fuls. 1843Spirit of Times 30 Sept. 366/3 The rain..came pouring down in buckets-full. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xv. 165 A stove, glowing with at least a bucketful of anthracite. 1892C. M. Yonge That Stick II. xxxviii. 181 She cried bucketsful. 1936W. R. Titterton G. K. Chesterton ii. iv. 145 Turning out books in buckets-full. |