Bucket
Bucket ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Old English boket; compare Anglo-Saxon 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.
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.
(Machinery) 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.
(Machinery) one of vanes on the rotor of a turbine.
6.
Collocations (2)
Fire bucket , a bucket for carrying water to put out fires.
To kick the bucket , to die. [Low]
Bucket , transitive verb
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. [English]