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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. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Image File history File links Commons-logo. ... This article is about the physical container. ... Look up Can in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A right circular cylinder An elliptic cylinder In mathematics, a cylinder is a quadric surface, with the following equation in Cartesian coordinates: This equation is for an elliptic cylinder, a generalization of the ordinary, circular cylinder (a = b). ... A truncated cube - faces double in sides, and vertices replaced by new faces. ... This article is about the geometric object, for other uses see Cone. ... A handle is a part of, or attachment to, an object that can be moved or used by hand. ...

History and Usage

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] Shadoof in Hortobágy (1890s) Shaduf. ... Irrigation is the artificial application of water to the soil usually for assisting in growing crops. ...

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. It has been suggested that Backhoe fade be merged into this article or section. ... Table of Hydraulics and Hydrostatics, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ...

Wooden Bucket Anatomy

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] For other uses, see Wood (disambiguation). ... Side views of a bevel (above) and a chamfer (below) A beveled edge refers to an edge of a structure that is not perpendicular (but instead usually at 45 degrees) to the faces of the piece. ... The word bail as a legal term means: Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that persons appearance for trial. ...

Safety Concerns

The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission warns that infants and toddlers can drown in 5-gallon buckets.^[4] The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government created in 1972 through the Consumer Safety Act to protect “against unreasonable risks of injuries associated with consumer products”. As of 2006 its acting chairman is Nancy Nord, a Republican. ... “Baby” redirects here. ... Boy toddler Toddler is a common term for a a young child who is learning to walk or toddle,[1] generally considered to be the second stage of development after infancy and occurring predominantly during the ages of 12 to 36 months old. ...

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