buck·et /ˈbʌkət/
桶,吊桶,水桶
bucket
桶; 貯體; 儲存區
bucket
雙桶( 儲存器 )
bucket
桶 包
Buck·et n.
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.
Fire bucket, a bucket for carrying water to put out fires.
To kick the bucket, to die. [Low]
Buck·et v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bucketed p. pr. & vb. n. Bucketing.]
1. To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water.
2. To pour over from a bucket; to drench.
3. To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
4. Rowing To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body. [Eng.]
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bucket
n 1: a roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top [syn: pail]
2: the quantity contained in a bucket [syn: bucketful]
v 1: put into a bucket
2: carry in a bucket
Bucket
a vessel to draw water with (Isa. 40:15); used figuratively,
probably, of a numerous issue (Num. 24:7).