Buckets
[bʌkits]
Examples
- In poorer houses, water is laboriously carried in buckets from the spring or is lifted from the well by the windlass. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Into this there is delivered by the endless chain of buckets shown on the left a continuous stream of a special free-flowing concrete mixture. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The steel buckets scoop up the material at the bottom of the ladder, which they then ascend, and are discharged by becoming inverted at the upper end of the ladder. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They upset buckets and benches, so that he might break his shins over them, which he never failed to do. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Some of these are of the clam-shell type, some employ the scoop and lever, others an endless series of buckets. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- All the blind men's dogs in the streets draw their masters against pumps or trip them over buckets. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In plastics there are brick machines, pressed glass ware, enameled sheet iron ware, tiles, paper buckets, celluloid and rubber articles. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Would you kindly send one of your constables for two buckets of water? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The paddle wheels had buckets 4 feet long with a dip of 2 feet. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I found they had already applied ladders to the walls of the apartment, and were well provided with buckets, but the water was at some distance. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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