bucket

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: pailbucketful

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the topSynonyms: pail
  2. the quantity contained in a bucketSynonyms: bucketful

Verb (2)

  1. put into a bucket
  2. carry in a bucket
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Webster's Dictionary (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.]

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]

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