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   Bucket , n. [OE. boket; cf. AS. buc pitcher, or Corn. buket tub.]
   A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.
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   The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,
   The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.
   Wordsworth.
   
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   A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.
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   (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.
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   The valved piston of a lifting pump.
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   (Mach.) one of vanes on the rotor of a turbine.
   PJC
   (Mach.) a bucketfull.
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   Fire bucket, a bucket for carrying water to put out fires. -- To kick the bucket, to die. [Low]
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   Bucket , v. t.  [imp. & p. p. Bucketed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bucketing.]
   To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water.
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   To pour over from a bucket; to drench.
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   To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
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   (Rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body. [Eng.]
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