Meaning of mudbucket | Babel Free

Definitions

A bucket intended for scooping or holding mud.

Examples

“Instead, however, of sending out heavy dragoons, who are magnificent fellows in facing an open⟳ enemy, but who are about as much suited to the work⟳ of this colony as a first-rate frigate would be to the drawing up the mudbuckets used in deepening the Thames, the Cape Corps should have⟳ been augmented, or Light⟳ Cavalry ordered hither.”

“"We would keep⟳ watch⟳ for him, then sweep⟳ down on him with a mudbucket full of rocks," she relates.”

“Stabbing, doping of pipe, pulling slips, handling of the mudbucket, closing and opening of elevators, etc. are remote operations.”

“I passed a work⟳ train⟳ and cleanup gang, the mudbucket scooping gray slime from the tracks, the crew repairing the sensor wire that warns a control⟳ room in the city ...”

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