bucket brigade

bucket brigade
a) A primitive firefighting technique, in which a long line of people pass buckets of water hand-to-hand from the nearest water source to the site of a fire, in an attempt to douse it.
b) By extension, any process in which something is passed along a chain.

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  • bucket brigade — buck′et brigade n. a line of persons formed to extinguish a fire by passing along buckets of water • Etymology: 1910–15 …   From formal English to slang

  • bucket brigade — noun Date: 1899 a chain of persons acting to put out a fire by passing buckets of water from hand to hand …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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