well-bucket

I can't see how you could not notice that a well-bucket you use every day had been overtaken by a morning glory vine.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

By the time this cautious search is over, a stout ironbound bucket, precisely like a well-bucket, has been attached to one end of the whip; while the other end, being stretched across the deck, is there held by two or three alert hands.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

He drops the well-bucket down the stone-sided well, holding to the rope, letting the heavy oak and iron splinter the surface ice.

The Magic Engineer Modesitt, L. E. 1994

He took the well-bucket to get some water to drink - and lo and behold the pipe was in the bottom of the bucket!

Five Have A Mystery To Solve Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1962

In front of the house the well-bucket, hanging high upon the sweep, seemed dropping gold into the depths beneath.

Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers

Out of a single rock, separated into fragments, he built a cottage: it was a lonely spot, and the snakes from the fissures were in the habit of sharing the contents of his well-bucket.

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

It worked almost like a well-bucket and was quite easy to manage.

Marjorie's Vacation Carolyn Wells 1902

Then ef it's groceries, ur milk, ur peddlers 'stuff, ur what not, you have to go to the dumb-waiter that fetches things up through a hole in the wall like a well-bucket an' take the things off.

Northern Georgia sketches, 1900

He's very good to me, and brings over shavings and kindling-wood, and made me a new well-bucket for nothing.

The House Behind the Cedars 1900

He's very good to me, and brings over shavings and kindling-wood, and made me a new well-bucket for nothing.

The House Behind the Cedars 1895