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Definitions for Bucket

[1] a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
[2] anything resembling or suggesting this.
[3] Machinery . any of the scoops attached to or forming the endless chain in certain types of conveyors or elevators. the scoop or clamshell of a steam shovel, power shovel, or dredge. a vane or blade of a waterwheel, paddle wheel, water turbine, or the like.
[4] (in a dam) a concave surface at the foot of a spillway for deflecting the downward flow of water.
[5] a bucketful: a bucket of sand.
[6] Basketball . Informal . field goal. the part of the keyhole extending from the foul line to the end line.
[7] bucket seat.
[8] Bowling . a leave of the two, four, five, and eight pins, or the three, five, six, and nine pins.
[9] to lift, carry, or handle in a bucket (often followed by up or out ).
[10] Chiefly British . to ride (a horse) fast and without concern for tiring it.
[11] to handle (orders, transactions, etc.) in or as if in a bucket shop.
[12] Informal . to move or drive fast; hurry.
[13] drop in the bucket , a small, usually inadequate amount in relation to what is needed or requested: The grant for research was just a drop in the bucket.
[14] drop the bucket on , Australian Slang . to implicate, incriminate, or expose.
[15] kick the bucket , Slang . to die: His children were greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket.
[16] an open-topped roughly cylindrical container; pail
[17] Also called: bucketful the amount a bucket will hold
[18] any of various bucket-like parts of a machine, such as the scoop on a mechanical shovel
[19] a cupped blade or bucket-like compartment on the outer circumference of a water wheel, paddle wheel, etc
[20] computing a unit of storage on a direct-access device from which data can be retrieved
[21] mainly US a turbine rotor blade
[22] Australian and NZ an ice cream container
[23] kick the bucket slang to die
[24] (tr) to carry in or put into a bucket
[25] (intr often foll by down ) (of rain) to fall very heavily it bucketed all day
[26] (intr often foll by along ) mainly British to travel or drive fast
[27] (tr) mainly British to ride (a horse) hard without consideration
[28] (tr) Australian slang to criticize severely

Words related to Bucket

pail, pot, kettle, cask, can, canister, scuttle, vat, brazier, hod

Words nearby Bucket

buckbean, buckboard, bucked, buckeen, bucker, bucket, bucket about, bucket brigade, bucket conveyor, bucket ladder, bucket list

Origin of Bucket

1250–1300; Middle English buket < Anglo-French < Old English bucc (variant of būc vessel, belly; cognate with German Bauch ) + Old French -et -et

Word origin for Bucket

C13: from Anglo-French buket , from Old English būc ; compare Old High German būh belly, German Bauch belly

Synonyms for Bucket

can, canister, cask, kettle, pail, pot, brazier, hod, scuttle, vat