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Definition of Buckets

Bucket
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.]
Bucket
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]

Meaning of Buckets from wikipedia

- purposes. Common types of bucket and their adjoining purposes include: Water buckets used to carry water Household and garden buckets used for carrying liquids...
- empty "buckets". Scatter: Go over the original array, putting each object in its bucket. Sort each non-empty bucket. Gather: Visit the buckets in order...
- The design of the buckets allows the helicopter to hover over a water source—such as a lake, river, pond, or tank—and lower the bucket into the water to...
- Look up bucket list in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bucket list may refer to: A list of activities to do before dying (i.e. "kicking the bucket") The...
- A fire bucket is a bucket filled with water or sand which is used to prevent or extinguish fires. Typically, fire buckets are painted bright red and have...
- Wikimedia Commons has media related to Buckets and spades. BBC article on decline of traditional seaside holidays Picture of a bucket and spade from BBC v t e...
- Chum bucket, (The) Chum Bucket, or chumbucket can mean: A bucket used to hold "chum" in the practice of chumming The Chum Bucket, the fictional, unsuccessful...
- improved bucket toilet procedure. For application in emergencies (e.g. after earthquakes), it is possible to use two buckets (also known as "twin bucket toilet"):...
- A T-bucket (or Bucket T) is a hot rod, based on a Ford Model T built from 1915 to 1927, but extensively modified. T-buckets were favorites for greasers...
- The War of the Bucket or the War of the Oaken Bucket (Italian: Guerra della secchia rapita) was fought in 1325 between the rival city-states of Bologna...