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# bucketful

«bucketful» in Mova's school dictionary: **The amount that one bucket can hold: «a bucketful of water»** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a bucketful, bucketfuls)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The amount that one bucket can hold: «a bucketful of water». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucketful/#m1)

2) (informal) A large amount: «bucketfuls of rain». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucketful/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and science problems «bucketful» is a unit of measure: if a bucket holds 10 litres, 3 bucketfuls hold 30 litres. In everyday talk, «it rained buckets» or «bucketfuls» means very heavy rain. Phrases: «by the bucketful».

### examples

- We carried a bucketful of sand to make the castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucketful/#x1)
- It took six bucketfuls to fill the paddling pool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucketful/#x2)
- The bucket holds 8 litres, so 4 bucketfuls are 32 litres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucketful/#x3)
- She poured a bucketful of water over the campfire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucketful/#x4)
- They earned money by the bucketful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucketful/#x5)
- The farmer gave the pigs a bucketful of scraps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucketful/#x6)
- The Prince gave him a second bucketful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucketful/#x7)

### note

Plural: bucketfuls (standard) or bucketsful (rarer). Same pattern: spoonful, cupful, handful. In maths: number of bucketfuls × capacity of one bucket = total.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bucketful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucketful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.