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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



... keeper, old and crippled, sat on the porch beside a wooden bucket of well-water. The county newspaper lay on his knee, and he was reading the items aloud to his wife, old, too, but active, standing at her ironing-board within the kitchen door. A cat purred in the sunshine, and all the lilac bushes were in ...
— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston
... way of earning money open to her, so stealing one of Nellie's coarse aprons and a tin of soft soap from the kitchen, she hurried off to the school. She knew where Mrs. Cass kept the bucket and scrubbing-brush which she used for her cleaning operations; they were in a cupboard at the end of the passage. Being Saturday, the place was, of course, empty, and no one would disturb her. She had brought the Parsonage key to unlock the door, and after filling her bucket ...
— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil
... of a sail, and the steady hum of the unceasingly advancing keel. It was in the midst of this repose, that Archy, one of the cordon, whose post was near the after-hatches, whispered to his neighbor, a Cholo, the words above. Hist! did you hear that noise, Cabaco? Take the bucket, will ye, Archy? what noise d'ye mean? There it is again —under the hatches —don't you hear it —a cough—it sounded like a cough. Cough be damned! Pass along that return bucket. There again —there it is! ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville
... to hear this story," says the lawyer, "because I have half a mind (for a reason) to know more of it, and he is very intelligent in such things. What do you say to this, Bucket?" ...
— Bleak House • Charles Dickens
... have still a vision of him Ragged Rover, as he lay In the sunshine of the morning On the door-stone worn and gray; Where the honeysuckle trellis Hung its tinted blossoms low, And the well-sweep with its bucket Swung its burden to and fro; Where the maples were a-quiver In the pleasant June-time breeze; And where droned among the phloxes Half ...
— The Dog's Book of Verse • Various


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