A container with a handle, usually rounded, used for carrying liquids or holding things.
From Old English 'bucetin' or Anglo-Saxon origin, possibly related to 'buck' (the male deer), though the exact connection is unclear. Medieval buckets were made of wood or metal.
Buckets are so universal that almost every language has a similar-sounding word for them—it suggests buckets were one of humanity's earliest essential tools, traded and discussed so much across cultures that the word traveled too.
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