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Definition of 'bucket'

noun

A roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top [syn: bucket, pail]

noun

The quantity contained in a bucket [syn: bucket, bucketful]

verb

Put into a bucket

verb

Carry in a bucket

From: GCIDE

Bucket \Buck"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bucketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bucketing.]
1. To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. To pour over from a bucket; to drench. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4. (Rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body. [Eng.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From: GCIDE

Bucket \Buck"et\, n. [OE. boket; cf. AS. buc pitcher, or Corn. buket tub.]
1. A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids. [1913 Webster]
The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
2. A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
4. The valved piston of a lifting pump. [1913 Webster]
5. (Mach.) one of vanes on the rotor of a turbine. [PJC]
6. (Mach.) a bucketfull. [PJC]
Fire bucket, a bucket for carrying water to put out fires.
To kick the bucket, to die. [Low] [1913 Webster]

Bucket a vessel to draw water with (Isa. 40:15); used figuratively, probably, of a numerous issue (Num. 24:7).