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- This article is about the physical container. For uses in the field of computing see Bucket (computing).
A bucket with a bail and spout.
A janitor's bucket with a
mop and
wringer.
A bucket, also called a pail, is a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone, with an open top and a flat bottom, usually attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail. Buckets have been used since very ancient times, mainly for transporting water from a fountain or well into permanent reservoirs such as water holes and barrels. Buckets are also used to carry paint, sand and foodstuffs.
- At one time it was common for workers to carry their lunch in a covered "lunch pail".
- Bucket is also used to denote the scoop installed on a front loader, backhoe, or other construction tractors.
- A bucket is also a data structure in computer science, and is a specific type of bag (an unordered set).
- Bucket can also be used as slang to describe an old, dilapidated car.
- To "kick the bucket" as used in English slang, means to die.
- The Consumer Product Safety Alert warns that Infants and Toddlers can drown in 5-gallon buckets.
- Bucket seats are seats that only seat one person.
- Fire bucket, a bucket filled with sand to put out small fires.
- Honey buckets are sometimes used to dispose of sewage.
