Bucket /(?)/
Buck·et
Bucket
n.
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A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.
The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.
- A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.
- One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel. (Mach.)
- The valved piston of a lifting pump.
- one of vanes on the rotor of a turbine. (Mach.)
- a bucketfull. (Mach.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Fire bucket
- a bucket for carrying water to put out fires.
- To kick the bucket
- to die.
Bucket
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Bucketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bucketing
- To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water.
- To pour over from a bucket; to drench.
- To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
- To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body. (Rowing) [Eng.]