bucket.
A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
Meaning & usage
A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
I need a bucket to carry the water from the well.
The amount held in this container.
The horse drank a whole bucket of water.
A large amount of liquid.
It rained buckets yesterday.
I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.
A great deal of anything.
My new suit cost me buckets.
We had buckets of fun.
A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
The part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
Someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
The basket.
The forward drove to the bucket.
A field goal.
We can't keep giving up easy buckets.
A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
A bucket bag.
The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
The pitcher in certain orchids.
A helmet.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.
To place inside a bucket.
To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
to bucket water
To rain heavily.
It’s really bucketing down out there.
To travel very quickly.
The boat is bucketing along.
To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.
To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
To engage in an illegal practice where a broker confirms a client's trade order without actually executing it on the free market.
To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.
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