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buck⋅et

  [buhk-it] noun, verb, -et⋅ed, -et⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
2. anything resembling or suggesting this.
3. Machinery.
a. any of the scoops attached to or forming the endless chain in certain types of conveyors or elevators.
b. the scoop or clamshell of a steam shovel, power shovel, or dredge.
c. a vane or blade of a waterwheel, paddle wheel, water turbine, or the like.
4. (in a dam) a concave surface at the foot of a spillway for deflecting the downward flow of water.
5. a bucketful: a bucket of sand.
6. Basketball.
a. Informal. field goal.
b. the part of the keyhole extending from the foul line to the end line.
7. bucket seat.
8. Bowling. a leave of the two, four, five, and eight pins, or the three, five, six, and nine pins.
–verb (used with object)
9. to lift, carry, or handle in a bucket (often fol. by up or out).
10. Chiefly British. to ride (a horse) fast and without concern for tiring it.
11. to handle (orders, transactions, etc.) in or as if in a bucket shop.
–verb (used without object)
12. Informal. to move or drive fast; hurry.
—Idioms
13. drop in the bucket, a small, usually inadequate amount in relation to what is needed or requested: The grant for research was just a drop in the bucket.
14. drop the bucket on, Australian Slang. to implicate, incriminate, or expose.
15. kick the bucket, Slang. to die: His children were greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME buket < AF < OE bucc (var. of būc vessel, belly; c. G Bauch) + OF -et -et

Regional variation note:
Though both bucket and pail are used throughout the entire U.S., pail has its greatest use in the Northern U.S., and bucket is more commonly used elsewhere, esp. in the Midland and Southern U.S.
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bucket seat

 
–noun
an individual seat with a rounded or contoured back, as in some automobiles and airplanes, often made to fold forward.
Also called bucket.

Origin:
1905–10
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buck·et   (bŭk'ĭt)   
n.  

    1. A cylindrical vessel used for holding or carrying liquids or solids; a pail.

    2. The amount that a bucket can hold: One bucket of paint will be enough for the ceiling.

  2. A unit of dry measure in the U.S. Customary System equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters). See Table at measurement.

  3. A receptacle on various machines, such as the scoop of a power shovel or the compartments on a water wheel, used to gather and convey material.

  4. Basketball A basket.

v.   buck·et·ed, buck·et·ing, buck·ets

v.   tr.

  1. To hold, carry, or put in a bucket: bucket up water from a well.

  2. To ride (a horse) long and hard.

v.   intr.

  1. To move or proceed rapidly and jerkily: bucketing over the unpaved lane.

  2. To make haste; hustle.


[Middle English, from Old French buket, of Germanic origin.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
bucket

  1. n.
    the goal (hoop and net) in basketball. (Sports.) : Freddy arced one at the bucket and missed.
  2. n.
    a hoop or basket in basketball. (Sports.) : Four buckets in two minutes. Is that a record, or what?
  3. n.
    the buttocks. (See also can.) : Sam's getting a real fat bucket, isn't he?
  4. n.
    an old car. (From bucket of bolts.) : How much did you pay for that old bucket?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

bucket 
1248, from Anglo-Norm. buquet "bucket, pail," infl. by or dim. of O.E. buc "pitcher, bulging vessel," orig. "belly" (buckets were formerly of leather as well as wood), from P.Gmc. *bukaz, from PIE root *bhou-, variant of base *bheu- "to grow, swell." Kick the bucket (1785) perhaps is from unrelated O.Fr. buquet "balance," a beam from which slaughtered animals were hung; perhaps reinforced by the notion of suicide by hanging.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Bible Dictionary

Bucket

a vessel to draw water with (Isa. 40:15); used figuratively, probably, of a numerous issue (Num. 24:7).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Idioms & Phrases

bucket

see drop in the bucket; kick the bucket; rain cats and dogs (buckets); weep buckets.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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