Well bucket
A bucket on a rope for drawing from a well — the small vessel that does the work of bringing the depth up.
A well bucket in a dream is the dream's image of the small vessel that does the work of bringing depth up. The well has the water; the bucket and the rope are what makes the water available. The dream brings the bucket when something in your life — a method of drawing on an old memory, a practice that reaches into a deep skill, a friendship that gives you access to depth — is the specific instrument by which the supply gets to the surface. A bucket drawn up full and set on the rim is the dream affirming the working method. A bucket with a split seam, leaking on the way up so that the water is half-gone before it gets to the top, is the dream noting that the means of drawing has been damaged, and the depth is still there but is no longer arriving in usable quantity.