well bucket
A bucket used for drawing water from a well, often attached to a rope or pole.
Old wells had a well bucket attached.
shadoof; well sweep; counterweighted water bucket
Standard kanji spelling for a well bucket.
Kana spelling is common in everyday writing, especially when the kanji is not essential.
Compound of 釣る (tsuru, 'to fish, to hang') and 瓶 (he > be, 'jar, bottle, pot'). The reading つるべ is a rendaku form of つるへ.