bucket

Meanings

Noun

• A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
• The amount held in this container.
• A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
• Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
• An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
• The basket.
• A field goal.
• A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
• A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
• A large amount of liquid.
• A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
• A bucket bag.
• The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
• The pitcher in certain orchids.

Verb

• To place inside a bucket.
• To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
• To rain heavily.
• To travel very quickly.
• To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
• To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
• To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

Related

Similar words

• pail
• scoop, vane, blade
• banger, jalopy, rustbucket
• chuck it down, piss down, rain cats and dogs
• hurtle, rocket, shoot, speed, whizz, book it

Origin

• , equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc, from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, buco, buca), from Frankish *būk. Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz ("belly, stomach"). More at bouk.