honey bucketn.
/ˈhʌnɪ ˌbʌkɪt/, U.S. /ˈhəni ˌbəkət/ 1. Bee-keeping. A bucket or similar receptacle used for collecting honey.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun] > bee-keeping equipment
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honey bucket1886
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1886 Gleanings Bee Culture 1 June 464/2 Western Bee-keepers' Supply House... Honey buckets.
1925 Youth's Compan. 15 Oct. 710/1 The whole swamp was soon humming with enraged bees. Clouds of them followed the dripping honey buckets.
1970 G. Grigson Notes from Odd Country 209 Honey bucket..with a special lid which fits and clips down tight so that the honey can't flow out.
2006 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune (Nexis) 12 Aug. 1 c A honey bucket under it contains coarse and fine sieves to catch wax particles and other debris.
2. North American slang (chiefly Canadian and Alaska). A bucket or similar receptacle used as a toilet; (also) a simple chemical toilet. Cf. honey n. 8.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > chemical
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1931 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Songs & Slang Brit. Soldier: 1914–1918 (ed. 3) 318 Honey-bucket, latrine-receptacle for excreta. Canadian.
1934 Argonaut (San Francisco) 14 Dec. 6/3 On the narrow paths we encountered coolies with ‘honey buckets’ of night soil slung on shoulder poles.
1959 S. Carrighar Moonlight at Midday 275 Other waste is disposed of through what is called..the honey bucket. This is a chemical toilet..enclosed in a large metal box.
2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 16 June i. 16/3 We could be going from a $28 million dollar sewage system..to honey buckets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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