mudbucket

mudbucket

English

Etymology

mud +‎ bucket

Noun

mudbucket (plural mudbuckets)

1. A bucket intended for scooping or holding mud.
   • 1844, The United Service Magazine:

     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.

   • 1993, The Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener - Volumes 20-22, page 11:

     "We would keep watch for him, then sweep down on him with a mudbucket full of rocks," she relates.

   • 1997, Proceedings - Offshore Technology Conference - Volume 2, page 534:

     Stabbing, doping of pipe, pulling slips, handling of the mudbucket, closing and opening of elevators, etc. are remote operations.

   • 2002, Harvey Manning, Walking the Beach to Bellingham, →ISBN, page 29:

     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 ...