A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
I need a bucket to carry the water from the well.
The amount held in this container.
The horse drank a whole bucket of water.
A large amount of liquid.
It rained buckets yesterday.
To place inside a bucket.
To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
to bucket water
Nickname for Pawtucket: a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.
‘You really think the Bucket's a shithole, Mousy?’ ’[They should] put a toilet seat on top of this place.’
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 Nor...
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