fire bucket

plural fire buckets · alternative fire-bucket · alternative firebucket

1. firefightingA bucket holding water or sand, etc., used to extinguish fires.

   Fire buckets with the initials S.D.J.R. were still in evidence when the author visited the station in August, 1957.

   1958 July 28, Colin G. Maggs, “The East Somerset Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 464

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   Now he rushed to the platform edge carrying a full fire bucket, in a forlorn attempt to douse the flames as the now brightly burning wagon rolled past.

   2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42