Bucket

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A bucket is typically a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone and a Square, with an open top and a flat bottom, attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail.

A bucket us usually an open-top container. In contrast, a pail can have a top or lid and is a shipping container. In common usage, the two terms are often used interchangeably

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Types and uses

There are many types of buckets;

A water bucket is used to carry water
Household and garden buckets are used for carrying liquids and granular products
Elaborate ceremonial or ritual buckets in bronze, ivory or other materials are found in several ancient or medieval cultures and are sometimes known by the Latin for bucket, situla
Large scoops or buckets are attached to loaders and telehandlers for agricultural and earth-moving purposes
Crusher buckets attached to excavators are used for crushing and recycling material in the Construction Industry
A lunch box is sometimes called a lunch pail, or a lunch bucket.
Buckets can be re-purposed as seats, tool caddies, hydroponic gardens, chamber pots, "street" drums, or livestock feeders, or for long term food storage by survivalists
Buckets are often used as children's toys to shape and carry sand on a beach or in a sandpit

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Shipping containers

As a shipping container, the word "pail" is a technical term for a bucket shaped package with a sealed top or lid which is used as a shipping container for chemicals and industrial products.

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English literature

The bucket has been used in many phrases and idioms in the English language.

Kick the bucket: a dysphemism for someone's death
Drop the bucket on: implicating a person (Australian slang)
A drop in the bucket: a small, inadequate amount in relation to how much is requested or asked
Bucket list: a list of activities an individual wishes to undertake before death