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fire bucket en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A bucket holding water or sand, etc., used to extinguish fires.
   • Now he rushed to the platform edge carrying a full fire bucket, in a forlorn attempt to douse the flames as the now brightly burning wagon rolled past. 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:
   • Fire buckets with the initials S.D.J.R. were still in evidence when the author visited the station in August, 1957. 1958 July 14, Colin G. Maggs, “The East Somerset Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 464:

Forms

Coordinates

fire extinguisher (firefighting tool) · fire engine (firefighting tool) · chemical engine (firefighting tool) · fire blanket (firefighting tool) · fire grenade (firefighting tool) · fire hose (firefighting tool)

Translations (3)

la hama (bucket used to extinguish fires) · de Löscheimer (bucket used to extinguish fires) · ga buicéad dóiteáin (bucket used to extinguish fires)