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Bucket   /bˈəkət/  /bˈəkɪt/   Listen
noun
Bucket  n.  
1.
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."
2.
A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.
3.
(Mach.) 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.
4.
The valved piston of a lifting pump.
5.
(Mach.) One of vanes on the rotor of a turbine.
6.
(Mach.) A bucketfull.
Fire bucket, a bucket for carrying water to put out fires.
To kick the bucket, to die. (Low)


verb
Bucket  v. t.  (past & past part. bucketed; pres. part. bucketing)  
1.
To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water.
2.
To pour over from a bucket; to drench.
3.
To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
4.
(Rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body. (Eng.)





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"Bucket" Quotes from Famous Books



... Franz, "I won't eat a roll and drink water; I must have my breakfast and coffee; you can drink water, a bucket full if you choose. My father does not wish us to go hungry on this journey. But we can talk about it after we have had ...
— Pixy's Holiday Journey • George Lang
... the calfkins as the lion tamer goes 'mong the monarchs of the jungle, at the famous three-ring shows; and the calves are fierce and hungry, and they haven't sense to wait, till he gets a good position and has got his bucket straight; and they act as though they hadn't e'en a glimmering of sense, for they climb upon his shoulders ere he is inside the fence, and they butt him in the stomach, and they kick him everywhere, till he thinks he'd give ...
— Rippling Rhymes • Walt Mason
... what thievish crew claims ye, but I'll lay they'll see the marks of my hand-write under your shirt to-morrow,' said Matthew, savagely; but to his surprise the lad gave a single shriek, and sank down as if in a fit. A dash of water from the stable bucket recovered him somewhat, although his mind ...
— Adrift in the Ice-Fields • Charles W. Hall
... of rising ground! I thought we should never come to the end of them, and yet I dared not let the mare out lest she should bucket herself. Happily she and her companion, the stallion—a most enduring horse, though not so very swift—had stood idle for the last thirty hours, and, of course, had not eaten or drunk since sunset. Therefore being in fine fettle, they were keen for the ...
— Marie - An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain • H. Rider Haggard
... up in my bucket, I'se got butter up in my bowl; But I hain't got no Sweetheart Fer ...
— Negro Folk Rhymes - Wise and Otherwise: With a Study • Thomas W. Talley


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