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Bucket
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A bucket, also called a pail or can, is 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.
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Buckets have been used since very ancient times, for transporting water, grain and other items. Ancient Egyptians used a bucket attached to a shaduf, a long pole attached to a counterweight, to lift water from the Nile to irrigate crops. [1]
Buckets may be made of a variety of materials, including wood, plastic, and metal. They come in every size, from very small child's buckets to the world's largest cedar bucket in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. [2] A backhoe, a type of excavating equipment, also has a bucket on a large hydraulic arm for digging and scooping.
A wooden bucket is made of a series of straight, flat sections of wood beveled along the side so that when fitted together they will form a tall cylinder that is wider on the top than the bottom. These wood pieces are called staves. They are held together tightly with a wood or metal hoop. The handle of the bucket is made of metal, wood or rope and is called a bail.[3]
The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission warns that infants and toddlers can drown in 5-gallon buckets.[4]