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bucket

Pronunciation: /ˈbʌkɪt/

The English word “bucket” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
  2. The amount held in this container.
  3. A large amount of liquid.
  4. A great deal of anything.
  5. A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
  6. The part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
  7. Someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
  8. An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
  9. The basket.
  10. A field goal.
  11. A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
  12. A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
  13. A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
  14. A bucket bag.
  15. The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
  16. The pitcher in certain orchids.
  17. A helmet.

verb

  1. To place inside a bucket.
  2. To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
  3. To rain heavily.

Etymology

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…

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