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A number of bucket types exist, used for a variety of purposes. Though most of these are functional purposes, a number, including those constructed from precious metals, are used for ceremonial purposes. Common types of bucket and their adjoining purposes include:
- Water buckets used to carry water
- Household and garden buckets used for carrying liquids and granular products
- Elaborate ceremonial or ritual buckets constructed of bronze, ivory or other materials, found in several ancient or medieval cultures, sometimes known by the Latin for bucket, situla
- Large scoops or buckets attached to loaders and telehandlers for landscaping agricultural and purposes
- Crusher buckets attached to excavators used for crushing and recycling material in the construction industry
- Buckets shaped like castles often used as children's toys to shape and carry sand on a beach or in a sandpit
- Buckets in special shapes such as cast iron buckets or smelting buckets to hold liquid metal at high temperatures.
Though not always bucket shaped, lunch boxes are sometimes known as lunch pails or a lunch bucket. Buckets can be repurposed as seats, tool caddies, hydroponic gardens, chamber pots, "street" drums, or livestock feeders, amongst other uses. Buckets are also repurposed for the use of long term food storage by survivalists.