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bucketing out

An expression used to describe removal of debris from a manhole with a pail or bucket on a rope. In high-velocity cleaning of wastewater collection pipes, debris is washed into the downstream manhole. Removal of this debris by scooping it into pails and hauling it out is called bucketing out.