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bucket, pail
A cylindrical container with a handle, used for carrying water, cleaning, or other purposes.
バケツ is the standard word for a bucket or pail. A common household and cleaning item.
Etymology
From English "bucket," borrowed during the Meiji era.
Common collocations
- バケツに水を汲む: to draw water into a bucket
- バケツで運ぶ: to carry with a bucket
- バケツリレー: bucket relay (passing buckets of water in a chain, used in firefighting drills)
- バケツ一杯の水: a bucketful of water
Set expression
バケツをひっくり返したような雨 — an extremely heavy downpour (literally, "rain as if a bucket were turned upside down"). This is a very common and vivid expression.
Similar words
- 桶: tub, wooden bucket (traditional)
- たらい: washbasin, washtub