bucket

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Meaning

1. A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
2. The amount held in this container.
3. (informal) A large amount of liquid.
4. (informal) A great deal of anything.
5. A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
6. Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
7. (slang) an insult term used in Toronto to refer to someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
8. (slang) An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
9. (informal) The basket.
10. (informal) A field goal.
11. A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
12. A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
13. A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
14. A bucket bag.
15. The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
16. The pitcher in certain orchids.
17. (slang) A helmet.

pail

large bowl

water bucket

watering-pot

transport

bucket down

chuck it down

coal container

baling vessel

baling-vessel

small earthen vessel

small water-jar

bowk

memory segment

dredging box

sludge barrel

sludge bucket

scraper bucket

irrigation bucket

hoist bucket

excavator grab

Barl. barrel

scraper pan

coal scuttle

Frequency

Hyphenated as

buck‧et

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbʌkɪt/

From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.