单词 | bucketful |
释义 | bucketfuln. As much as a bucket will hold. Also transferred and quasi-adv. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a receptacle > a bucket or pail bucketful1564 skeelful1575 stoupful1590 pailful1591 pail1592 bucketload1842 1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Catech. & Other Pieces (1844) 39 All people are in comparison of him as a drop to a bucket-full. 1656 J. Trapp Comm. Matt. vii. 11 He will pour out..as it were by pails or buckets fuls. 1843 Spirit of Times 30 Sept. 366/3 The rain..came pouring down in buckets-full. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xv. 165 A stove, glowing with at least a bucketful of anthracite. 1892 C. M. Yonge That Stick II. xxxviii. 181 She cried bucketsful. 1936 W. R. Titterton G. K. Chesterton ii. iv. 145 Turning out books in buckets-full. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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