Bucket

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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. Buckets have been used since very ancient times, mainly for transporting water from a fountain or well into permanent reservoirs such as water holes and barrels. Buckets are also used to carry paint, sand and foodstuffs. There was once a rhyme written about a bucket, It consisted of key elements involving Jack and Jill, They had a pail. Buckets can also be used on farms, to give feed to animals such as horses or cows, or to collect things such as apples or pears.

The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission warns that infants and toddlers can drown in 5-gallon buckets.[1]

A wooden bucket as made by a white cooper in 1850 from the film How Things are Made: A Wooden Bucket, 2005 http://vinestreetworks.com

A young lady carrying a bucket. By the German artist Heinrich Zille.

A janitor's bucket with a mop and wringer.

An excavator bucket.