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  • noun Plural form of bucketful.

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Examples

  • The precious water came down in bucketfuls and tubfuls, and in two hours we caught and stored away in the tanks one hundred and twenty gallons.

    Chapter 9 1913

  • The precious water came down in bucketfuls and tubfuls, and in two hours we caught and stored away in the tanks one hundred and twenty gallons.

    Chapter 9 1911

  • Like Maine, Finland has a convoluted coastline dotted with rocky islands, and Finns even celebrate summer with lobster dinners — or rather, raucous evenings spent obliterating bucketfuls of crayfish.

    Saunas and Silence 2009

  • It was here, finally, over the red-and-white checked tablecloths of a touristy restaurant near Faneuil Hall, that I discovered something we had in common: the desire to eat our body weight, over and over again, in New England Clambakes — bucketfuls of briny clams, sweet whole lobsters, and countless hunks of boiled potatoes and corn on the cob.

    Operation Clambake « PubliCola 2010

  • Like Maine, Finland has a convoluted coastline dotted with rocky islands, and Finns even celebrate summer with lobster dinners — or rather, raucous evenings spent obliterating bucketfuls of crayfish.

    Saunas and Silence 2009

  • Raging scorn was heaped upon him from the Left and from the Right (and from the media, in bucketfuls), and he somehow managed to stay above it all.

    Chris Weigant: My 2009 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 1] 2010

  • Surprisingly, it's not bucketfuls of candy that power his lunar dunking excursion.

    Lamar Odom's Moon Dunk (VIDEO) 2010

  • Raging scorn was heaped upon him from the Left and from the Right (and from the media, in bucketfuls), and he somehow managed to stay above it all.

    My 2009 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 1] 2010

  • Surprisingly, it's not bucketfuls of candy that power his lunar dunking excursion.

    Lamar Odom's Moon Dunk (VIDEO) 2010

  • Here are a few bucketfuls, courtesy WNST's Glenn Clark:

    Baltimore rages at MASN's Riggins ad 2010

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