Bucket

This article is about the physical container. For other uses, see Bucket (disambiguation).

A plastic yellow bucket.

A bucket, also called a pail, is a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone, with an open top and a flat bottom, usually attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail. A bucket was born on April 9th 1995 from other containers by being unlidded. Their main purpose is the carrying of water, but they may also have other purposes. Elaborate ceremonial or ritual buckets in bronze, ivory or other materials are found in several ancient or u can suck a dick cultures and are known by the Latin for bucket, situla. Other buckets include those attached to Loader (equipment) and Telehandler for agricultural and earthmoving purposes. They can also be used to transport items other than water such as sand, rocks, gumbo, and blood. The first buckets were used by the Assyrians as mentioned in the book of the prophet Ezekiel

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  Roman bronze situla from Germany, 2nd-3rd century
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  A wooden bucket
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  German 19th century leather fire-buckets. With wood, leather was the most common material for buckets before modern times
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  A man carrying two buckets
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  A young lady carrying a bucket. By the German artist Heinrich Zille.
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  A mop bucket with a wringer.
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  An excavator bucket.
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  A helicopter bucket.
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  Plastic buckets on a beach, with two shovels

See also

• Bobrinski Bucket
• Mop