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名詞

bucketful (plural bucketfuls or bucketsful)

1. The quantity contained in a bucket.

   Synonym: pailful

   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "I had a fire lit there, and there is a bucketful of coals. You will be pretty comfortable, I hope."

2. (by extension) A large quantity.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lot

   • 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:

     But out of the water he dared not put his head; for the rain came down by bucketsful, and the hail hammered like shot on the stream, and churned it into foam; […]

   • 1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados

     "Confound it all," snorted Mr. Tupworthy indignantly, "you're flooding my flat. The water's coming through my bathroom ceiling in bucketfuls. The plaster'll fall next. Can't you stop it? Has a pipe burst or something?"