dinner pail
dinner bucket

In a corner, a watchman's dinner pail was resting on a table, a half-finished cup of coffee beside it.

At four-thirty he went to the castle and picked up the dinner pail.

She only saw him pass the dinner pail inside the narrow entrance.

He grabbed his dinner pail and headed out the door himself.

He grabbed his dinner pail and headed for the Sloss works.

The report gets out that the ore is so rich that the miners steal it in their dinner pails.

Vast populations grew frenzied over such phrases as "an honest dollar" and "a full dinner pail."

A related phrase is to "hand in one's dinner pail", a bucket that contains a worker's dinner.

When the roof caught fire one day, the children used their dinner pails to bring water to douse the blaze.