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- noun Plural form of
bucketful .
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Surprisingly, it's not bucketfuls of candy that power his lunar dunking excursion.
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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.
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Surprisingly, it's not bucketfuls of candy that power his lunar dunking excursion.
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Here are a few bucketfuls, courtesy WNST's Glenn Clark:
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