bucket, pail
(noun) a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top
bucket, bucketful
(noun) the quantity contained in a bucket
bucket
(verb) carry in a bucket
bucket
(verb) put into a bucket
Source: WordNet® 3.1
bucket (plural buckets)
A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
The amount held in this container.
(UK, archaic) A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
(slang) An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
(basketball, informal) The basket.
(basketball, informal) A field goal.
(variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
(computing) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
(informal, chiefly, in the plural) A large amount of liquid.
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.
• (container): pail
• (piece of machinery): scoop, vane, blade
• (old car): banger, jalopy, rustbucket
bucket (third-person singular simple present buckets, present participle bucketing, simple past and past participle bucketed)
(transitive) To place inside a bucket.
(transitive) To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
(intransitive, informal) To rain heavily.
• It’s really bucketing down out there.
(intransitive, informal) To travel very quickly.
• The boat is bucketing along.
(computing, transitive) To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
(transitive) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
(transitive, UK, US, rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
• (rain heavily): chuck it down, piss down, rain cats and dogs
• (travel very quickly): hurtle, rocket, shoot, speed, whizz, book it
Source: Wiktionary
Buck"et, n. Etym: [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.)
Definition: 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]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
30 May 2025
(noun) (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash)
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
