Meanings
plural bucketmakers
- A manufacturer of buckets.
Ellys, Nicholas, and Norrys, Richard, bucketmakers of Charlwood, indicted for highway robbery.
1736, quoted in J. S. Cockburn, Calendar of Assize Records, Elizabeth I: Surrey indictments, 1975 (page 296)
Origin
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