Citations:bucketry

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English citations of bucketry

Noun: "buckets and similar objects, taken collectively"[edit]

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  • 1902, Drawing and Manual Training Journal, Volumes 1-2, page 124:
    Shooks and buckets were once the most famous work of Hingham. We had believed that the Hingham bucket was as obsolete as the Eohippus. The day of bucketry has dawned again, and buckets, churns, piggins, tubs were exhibited.
  • 2007, Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Scholastic (2007), →ISBN, page 194:
    “Come back and fight me!” she yelled, slamming the bucket against the bars in one final overhand strike, venting her fury by smashing the wooden container into a dozen different pieces. She stood, puffing for a second, holding a broken handle.
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    I empathized with Bastille – I even felt some of her same rage, even if I didn’t express it by destroying innocent bucketry.
  • 2009, Mal Peet, Exposure, Candlewick Press (2010), →ISBN, pages 193-194:
    He found his way into home decorating, and there he discovered a small tower of black rubber pails. [] Satisfied—or as satisfied as a non-expert in bucketry could be—Faustino bought the thing.

Noun: "the quality or condition of being a bucket"[edit]

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  • 2011, David Blatchford, The Story of Mr Tomkins, Iponymous Publishing Limited (2011), →ISBN, page 41:
    Billy the Laughing Bucket received the certificate of excellence in bucketry from the Campaign for Real Buckets.