From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bucket \Buck"et\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Bucketed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bucketing}.]
1. To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. To pour over from a bucket; to drench. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4. (Rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body. [Eng.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bucket \Buck"et\, noun [OE. boket; cf. AS. buc pitcher, or Corn. buket tub.]
1. A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.
The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. --Wordsworth.
2. A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.
3. (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.
4. The valved piston of a lifting pump.
5. (Mach.) one of vanes on the rotor of a turbine. [PJC]
6. (Mach.) a {bucketfull}. [PJC]
{Fire bucket}, a bucket for carrying water to put out fires.
{To kick the bucket}, to die. [Low]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top [syn: {pail}]
2: the quantity contained in a bucket [syn: {bucketful}]
verb
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "bucket": argosy, bail, bark, barrel, be caught short, be short, belong, boat, bottom, bucketshop, calaboose, can, clink, cooler, craft, cup, decant, deposit margin, dip, dish, dish out, dish up, fly, fork, go long, hasten, highball, hold on, hooker, hoosegow, hulk, hull, hustle, jug, keel, ladle, leviathan, lockup, make a killing, make a scoop, margin up, miss the market, operate, overstay the market, packet, pail, play the market, plunge, pokey, pour, prison, pyramid, run, rush, scalp, scoop, scoop the market, scuttle, ship, shovel, spade, speculate, speed, spoon, stag, stag the market, take a flier, trade on margin, tub, venture, vessel, watercraft, whiz
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Bucket a vessel to draw water with (Isa. 40:15); used figuratively, probably, of a numerous issue (Num. 24:7).
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