Bucket
A bucket or pail is typically a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone, with an open top and a flat bottom, attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail.
Building materials and solvents have been packaged in large metal pails, but in recent decades plastic buckets have been greatly favored. Plastic buckets have more uses due to the popularity of plastic for food products and the tendency of metal pails to rust.
There are many types of buckets;
As a shipping container, the word "pail" is a technical term for a bucket shaped package with a sealed top or lid which is used as a shipping container for chemicals and industrial products.
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, drawing by German artist Heinrich Zille.
An excavator bucket.
Plastic yellow bucket
A metal bucket.
The bucket has been used in many phrases and idioms in the English language.
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