The men who were not pumping formed a bucket chain, desperately scooping water out of the dark flooding bilges.

So many bucket chains had formed between the river and various burning buildings that buckets were getting misdirected and hijacked.

We thought of trying to empty the pool completely, using a bucket chain.

Near the waterfall, Short Round ascends on the rising bucket chain.

He made wonderful progress with his digging; he took the earth out like a bucket chain.

The noria supported a bucket chain which dangled down into the well.

They had to organize a bucket chain from the river.

Judith Niles pulled her gaze back from the hypnotic sight of the endless bucket chain.

Get a bucket chain going.

There was a huge bucket chain now, stretching all the way from the harbour to the brewery.