Thesaurus: bucket

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1. n. A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.
2. n. A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.
3. n. 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. n. The valved piston of a lifting pump.
5. n. a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top
6. n. the quantity contained in a bucket
7. v. put into a bucket
8. v. carry in a bucket
9. 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]
10. One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into whichthe water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of apaddle wheel.
11. n:100 n. a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top n. the quantity contained in a bucket v. put into a bucket v. carry in a bucket