bucketsful

Numerous filled pails

Bucketsful is a plural of bucketful, meaning the amount a bucket can hold.

Both bucketsful and bucketfuls are correct—the first treats bucket as the main noun being pluralized, the second treats bucketful as a single unit.

We hauled bucketsful of water from the well.

quantity

gallons

Volume measurement units

loads · heaps · piles · volumes · amounts · containers · pails · tubs · barrels · vessels

abundance

plenty

Sufficient quantity, and then some

tons · oodles · heaps · piles · loads · scads · gobs · slew · profusion · wealth

overflowing

spillage

Liquid that escaped containment

dripping · pouring · drenching · soaking · flooding · cascade · gushing · spilling · overrun · awash

collection

accumulation

Collected mass over time

  • haulPull or carry laboriously
  • batchQuantity produced together
  • assortmentMixed collection of things

gathering · cache · harvest · yield · trove · stash · supply · store · reserve · bounty

Opposites
quantity/volume

bucketsfultrickle

Thin, slow stream

drop · droplet · thimbleful · drops · dribble

Family

bucket, buckets, bucketful, pailful, bucketfuls, pailfuls

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G