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单词 bucketful
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bucketfuln.

Brit. /ˈbʌkɪtfʊl/, U.S. /ˈbəkətˌfʊl/
Etymology: < bucket n.1 + -ful suffix.
As much as a bucket will hold. Also transferred and quasi-adv.
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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
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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.
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