BUCKETFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bucketful mean? 

• BUCKETFUL (noun)
  The noun BUCKETFUL has 1 sense:

1. the quantity contained in a bucket

  Familiarity information: BUCKETFUL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUCKETFUL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quantity contained in a bucket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

bucket; bucketful

Hypernyms ("bucketful" is a kind of...):

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

 Context examples 

She went out to the stream which flowed through the garden, and had a whole bucketful of gudgeons brought to her.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It went over suddenly, burying its gunwale level with the sea and shipping a bucketful or so of water.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In fact, this month you may see a bucketful of money.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Mort Dieu! cried the bowman, there is a bucketful or more of my blood over in France, but it was all spilled in hot fight, and I should think twice before I drew it drop by drop as these friars are doing.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mother Holle led her, as she had led her sister, to the broad gateway; but as she was passing through, instead of the shower of gold, a great bucketful of pitch came pouring over her.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)