Bucket
['bʌkɪt]
Definition
(noun.) a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top.
(noun.) the quantity contained in a bucket.
(verb.) carry in a bucket.
(verb.) put into a bucket.
Editor: Tracy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.
(n.) A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The valved piston of a lifting pump.
Editor: Madge
Definition
n. a vessel for drawing or holding water &c.; one of the compartments on the circumference of a water-wheel or one of the scoops of a dredging-machine: the leather socket for holding the whip in driving or for the carbine or lance when mounted: a name given to the pitcher in some orchids.—ns. Buck′etful as much as a bucket will hold; Buck′eting (U.S.) jerky rowing; Buck′et-shop slang term for the offices of 'outside brokers'—mere agents for bets on the rise or fall of prices of stock &c.; Buck′et-wheel a contrivance for raising water by means of buckets attached to the circumference of a wheel.—Give the bucket to dismiss; Kick the bucket (slang) to die.
Checker: Marie
Examples
- Why, it's Bucket! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Not by Mr. Bucket? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mr. Bucket, satisfied, expresses high approval and awaits her coming at the door. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Yes, said Mr. Bucket. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mr. Bucket asks, conveying the expression of an artist into the turn of his eye and head. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Especially in your elevated station of society, miss, says Mr. Bucket, quite reddening at another narrow escape from my dear. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Just inside the open end of the oven the floor was scooped out so as to make a hole that would hold a bucket or two of water. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In poorer houses, water is laboriously carried in buckets from the spring or is lifted from the well by the windlass. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Into this there is delivered by the endless chain of buckets shown on the left a continuous stream of a special free-flowing concrete mixture. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The steel buckets scoop up the material at the bottom of the ladder, which they then ascend, and are discharged by becoming inverted at the upper end of the ladder. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They upset buckets and benches, so that he might break his shins over them, which he never failed to do. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Some of these are of the clam-shell type, some employ the scoop and lever, others an endless series of buckets. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- All the blind men's dogs in the streets draw their masters against pumps or trip them over buckets. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In plastics there are brick machines, pressed glass ware, enameled sheet iron ware, tiles, paper buckets, celluloid and rubber articles. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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