From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bucket
n 1: a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top [syn:
bucket, pail]
2: the quantity contained in a bucket [syn: bucket,
bucketful]
v 1: put into a bucket
2: carry in a bucket
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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2. To pour over from a bucket; to drench.
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3. To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
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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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,
The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.
--Wordsworth.
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2. A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying
coal, ore, grain, etc.
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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.
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4. The valved piston of a lifting pump.
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5. (Mach.) one of vanes on the rotor of a turbine.
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6. (Mach.) a bucketfull.
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Fire bucket, a bucket for carrying water to put out fires.
To kick the bucket, to die. [Low]
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