slop bucket

The three of them devise a game that involves kicking the ball through one doorway or the other, and we’re lucky it never lands in the slop bucket or the soup.

Richard is carrying the oatmeal pot for our mess, and James has a slop bucket he has just emptied.

I need a slop bucket badly, and there is none within reach.

But mostly I am hoping someone will figure out that I need a slop bucket before I soil my slops.

Better than being chained up by Captain Smith again with no slop bucket nearby.