pig bucket

noun

A bucket (or similar receptacle) used to collect kitchen waste to be used as pig fodder.

First used 19th c.
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Meanings

nounpig bucket (plural pig buckets)

plural pig buckets

  1. New ZealandA bucket (or similar receptacle) used to collect kitchen waste to be used as pig fodder.First known use 19th c.

    I have many a time seen large portions of quartern loaves, pieces of meat, bones, potatoes, etc., in the pig-bucket in the scullery.

    1921, Montagu Lomax, The Experiences of an Asylum Doctor, London: Allen & Unwin, page 122
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