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wine bucket

wine bucket

2.1
A container filled with ice that keeps a wine bottle cold
  • noun
  • /waɪn ˈbʌkɪt/
translation icon : cubitera de vino
  • At the restaurant, they brought a shiny wine bucket to accompany our red wine.

Examples

  • Each table had a stylish wine bucket filled with ice to serve the guests.

  • - Bring a wine bucket.

    Invisible Agent (1942)

  • Pre-Victorian alabaster plant holders, said to have stood outside a Raja's palace, now stood by the tables as wine buckets.

    Academic text (1990)

  • We placed the bottle of champagne in the wine bucket to keep it chilled for the party.

Synonyms

wine cooler
vswine bucket
5 3.0

A container filled with ice that keeps a wine bottle cold

is meant both to chill and to bring the bottle for serving
ice bucket
vswine bucket
5 1.0

A container that holds ice to keep drinks cold

is focused on chilling and presenting one bottle for serving

Surface Forms

wine bucket singular
wine buckets plural

Morphology

wine + bucket

The meaning 'a bucket used to chill and serve a bottle of wine' is directly derivable from combining 'wine' (the drink) with 'bucket' (a container), so learners who know both words will readily infer it's a container for wine. Noun–noun compounding to indicate purpose or contents is a common, cross-linguistically transparent pattern, making this phrase understandable to a B1 learner even if the detail about ice as the chilling medium is cultural.

Etymology

Wine bucket is a simple name: it is a bucket filled with ice that holds a bottle of wine to keep it cold. That's why it means 'a bucket used to chill and serve wine'.