bucketful

From bucket +‎ -ful. Compare Old English būcful, būcfull (“bucketful”).

bucketful (plural bucketfuls or bucketsful)

The quantity contained in a bucket.
Synonym: pailful
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
  "I had a fire lit there, and there is a bucketful of coals. You will be pretty comfortable, I hope."
(by extension) A large quantity.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lot
- 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:
  But out of the water he dared not put his head; for the rain came down by bucketsful, and the hail hammered like shot on the stream, and churned it into foam; […]

quantity contained in a bucket

large quantity