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mudbucket en · NOUN

Etymology

From mud + bucket.

Meanings

1. A bucket intended for scooping or holding mud.
   • I passed a work train and cleanup gang, the mudbucket scooping gray slime from the tracks, the crew repairing the sensor wire that warns a control room in the city ... 2002, Harvey Manning, Walking the Beach to Bellingham, →ISBN, page 29:
   • Instead, however, of sending out heavy dragoons, who are magnificent fellows in facing an open enemy, but who are about as much suited to the work of this colony as a first-rate frigate would be to the drawing up the mudbuckets used in deepening the Thames, the Cape Corps should have been augmented, or Light Cavalry ordered hither. 1844, The United Service Magazine:
   • Stabbing, doping of pipe, pulling slips, handling of the mudbucket, closing and opening of elevators, etc. are remote operations. 1997, Proceedings - Offshore Technology Conference - Volume 2, page 534:
   • "We would keep watch for him, then sweep down on him with a mudbucket full of rocks," she relates. 1993, The Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener - Volumes 20-22, page 11:

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