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mudbucket

noun

Etymology

From mud + bucket.

  1. derived from *būkaz✻
  2. derived from *būk✻ — “belly, stomach”
  3. derived from *būcus✻
  4. derived from buc — “abdomen; object with a cavity”
  5. derived from buket
  6. derived from bucc
  7. inherited from buket
  8. compounded as mudbucket — “mud + bucket”

Definitions

  1. A bucket intended for scooping or holding mud.

    • "We would keep watch for him, then sweep down on him with a mudbucket full of rocks," she relates.
    • Stabbing, doping of pipe, pulling slips, handling of the mudbucket, closing and opening of elevators, etc. are remote operations.

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