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bucketload, n.
Brit. |ˈbʌkɪtləʊd|, U.S. |ˈbəkətˌloʊd|
[‹ bucket n.1 + load n.]
1. A bucket and its contents; as much as one bucket will hold.
1842Times 5 July 6/6 Mr. M'Intyre himself accompaning [sic] almost every bucket-load of visitors. Some hundreds have been hoisted to the top. 1897Brooklyn Daily Eagle 20 Sept. 9/3 Five and a half of these bucket loads [of coal] equal a ton. 1917V. Appleton Tom Swift in Land of Wonders xviii. 156 At the top of a shaft waiting for a bucket load of dirt to be hoisted up. 1999New Scientist 8 May 47/1 Dung is likewise well known as a fertiliser..whether in the form of bucketloads of Chinese night soil, or as the guano on South Pacific islands.
2. In sing. and pl. A large quantity, a great deal. by the bucketload: in large quantities, in abundance.
1930H. Walpole Fortitude (new ed.) p. xi, I would give a bucket-load of self-conscious imitations of Ulysses for one of Mr. Polly. 1978Economist (Nexis) 26 Aug. 92 Investors have put money by the bucketload into shares. 1991Climbing Feb.–Mar. 112/2 Brain cells are shorting out by the bucket load. 2001Camcorder User June 115/1 A full-size VHS camcorder with manual zoom. Bucketloads of features for the enthusiast and an impressive performer. |