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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well --Wordsworth. 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. {Fire bucket}, a bucket for carrying water to put out fires. {To kick the bucket}, to die. [Low] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: bucket n 1: an open-topped and roughly cylindrical vessel [syn: {pail}] 2: the quantity contained in a bucket [syn: {bucketful}] v 1: put into a bucket 2: carry in a bucket From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Bucket a vessel to draw water with (Isa. 40:15); used figuratively, probably, of a numerous issue (Num. 24:7).
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