bucketfulEtymologyFrom bucket + -ful. Compare Old English būcful, būcfull (“bucketful”).nounThe quantity contained in a bucket.“"I had a fire lit there, and there is a bucketful of coals. You will be pretty comfortable, I hope."”A large quantity.“But out of the water he dared not put his head; for the rain came down by bucketsful, and the hail hammered like shot on the stream, and churned it into foam; […]”