[f. BUCKET sb.1 + -FUL.] As much as a bucket will hold.
a. 1563. Becon, New Catech. (1844), 39. Behold all people are in comparison of him as a drop to a bucket-full.
1656. Trapp, Comm. Matt. vii. 11. He will pour out … as it were by pails or buckets fuls.
1809. Hull Packet, 28 Feb., 3/3. The reservoir of water … was like a mere bucketful to the volume of fire on which it fell.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., I. xv. 165. A stove, glowing with at least a bucketful of anthracite.
