Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A covered bucket for carrying water or spirits.

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Examples

  • Carl seized a horse-bucket, and began sousing the window-sills of the harness-room, where the fire was hottest.

    Tom Grogan Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

  • Jerry took the largest cooking-pot, and saying to Tom, "You bring that horse-bucket along," pushed his way out through a small gap that had been left in the screen of bushes.

    In the Heart of the Rockies 1867

  • Howsomever, there was a horse-bucket kicking about her decks, and which, as luck would have it, got jammed-in with the pumps in such a fashion that it did not go overboard until we took it with us.

    The Red Rover James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • Nothing to eat, and nothing to drink, but _water out of a horse-bucket_! "

    The Man in Gray Thomas Dixon 1905

  • He can beat anything in this country, "asserted the owner from his perch on a horse-bucket.

    Bred In The Bone 1908 Thomas Nelson Page 1887

  • "All the way from town he had been rehearsing to himself the story he was going to tell; but he hadn't finished it yet, and he wanted to get it all straight before he began, so he walked over to the barn and sat down on an inverted horse-bucket to get his story all straight before he began.

    John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein Frank Richard Stockton 1868

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