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A bucket, also called a pail, is typically 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 pail can have an open top or can have a lid.
Types and uses
There are many types of pails and buckets;
- Household and garden uses are often 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 known by the Latin for bucket, situla.
- Farm chemicals often come in pails and buckets and can be reused for many farm tasks
- Large scoops or buckets are attached to Loader (equipment) and Telehandler for agricultural and earthmoving purposes.
- Open headed and closed headed pails are used as shipping containers for chemicals and industrial products
- A Lunch box is often called a lunch pail
- Roman bronze situla from Germany, 2nd-3rd century
- A wooden bucket
- German 19th century leather fire-buckets. With wood, leather was the most common material for buckets before modern times
- A man carrying two buckets
- A young lady carrying a bucket. By the German artist Heinrich Zille.
- A mop bucket with a wringer.
- An excavator bucket.
- A helicopter bucket.
- Plastic buckets on a beach, with two shovels
- Container for food products
- Plastic pail used for milking