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Buckets shaped like castles often used as children's toys to shape and carry sand on a beach or in a sandpit; Buckets in special shapes such as cast iron buckets or smelting buckets to hold liquid metal at high temperatures; Though not always bucket shaped, lunch boxes are sometimes known as lunch pails or a lunch bucket. Buckets can be ...
The Big Muskie was a model 4250-W dragline and was the only one ever built by the Bucyrus-Erie company. [1] With a 220-cubic-yard (170 m 3) bucket, it was the largest single-bucket digging machine ever created and one of the world's largest mobile earth-moving machines alongside the Illinois-based Marion 6360 stripping shovel called The Captain and the German bucket wheel excavators of the ...
Bucket and cone refer to twin attributes that are frequently held in the hands of winged genies depicted in the art of Mesopotamia, and within the context of Ancient Mesopotamian religion. The iconography is particularly frequent in art from the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–605 BCE ) , and especially Assyrian palace reliefs from this period.
A helicopter bucket or helibucket is a specialized bucket suspended on a cable carried by a helicopter to deliver water for aerial firefighting. The design of the buckets allows the helicopter to hover over a water source—such as a lake , river , pond , or tank —and lower the bucket into the water to refill it.
The Buckets is a comic strip originally created by Scott Stantis. It has been syndicated since 1990, currently by Andrews McMeel Syndication . The comic centers on a suburban family of five; two parents, two boys, Toby, a moody adolescent and Eddie, a young boy, and their paternal grandfather.
Typically, fire buckets are painted bright red and have the word fire stencilled on them. Often they have a convex, protruding bottom. The rounded bottom results in a strong, directed stream of water when the water is thrown at the fire. The rounded-bottom bucket is far more efficient in launching the water at the fire than a flat bottom bucket.
A bucket brigade or human chain is a method for transporting items where items are passed from one (relatively stationary) person to the next. The method was important in firefighting before the advent of hand-pumped fire engines, whereby firefighters would pass buckets of water to each other to extinguish a blaze.