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bucket brigade

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meanings of bucketand brigade


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bucket
noun[C]
uk /ˈbʌk.ɪt/ us /ˈbʌk.ɪt/
a container with an open top and a handle, often used for ...
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brigade
noun
uk /brɪˈɡeɪd/ us /brɪˈɡeɪd/
a large group of soldiers in ...
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Examples of bucket brigade


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The only way to fight a fire was for men to form a bucketbrigade.
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All hands bailed out the flooded spaces by an old-fashioned, but effective, method - the bucketbrigade.
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The name comes from analogy with the term bucketbrigade, used for a line of people passing buckets of water.
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The containers had three handles on them which allowed easy handling by one or two people, or movement bucketbrigade-style.
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Fire protection depended upon the bucketbrigade and finding a hydrant.
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The term bucketbrigade is also used for a certain method of organizing manual order picking in distribution centers.
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The business district was nearly destroyed by fire in 1923, when a bucketbrigade was able to save only two businesses.
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The bucketbrigade drew water from the starboard side, took it to the engine room, and poured it onto the fire.
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These buckets were intended for use by the initial bucketbrigade that would supply the water at fires.
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An important advancement around 1822 was the invention of an engine which could draft water from a water source doing away with the bucketbrigade.
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Running a bucketbrigade to put out the building blaze was totally ineffective.
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The city owned a small fire engine with a large reservoir which was filled by a bucketbrigade extending to the creek.
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The blaze was contained and put out through the efforts of a "bucketbrigade".
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Fire fighting equipment as well as a bucketbrigade tried to douse the flames with water.
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A special bucketbrigade delay chip was employed to allow the effect to be completely analog, however the supply of these chips was limited.
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The building was saved by a bucketbrigade.
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A bucketbrigade was formed but the building could not be saved.
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The approximately 80 students on the premises evacuated themselves safely, and then formed a makeshift bucketbrigade.
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A bucketbrigade, equipped with tubs, buckets, pails, kettles, and other utensils, was formed down to the edge of the stream by the onlookers.
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