Definition of Bucket

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Bucket

A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.

A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.

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.

The valved piston of a lifting pump.

To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water.

To pour over from a bucket; to drench.

To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.

To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

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Bucket Quotations

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
Jim Rohn

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
George Orwell

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
William Butler Yeats

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
Carl Sandburg

I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.
Lou Reed

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.
Tim McGraw

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Tom Stoppard

I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do.
Judi Dench

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.
Chuck Jones

It's just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shut the curtains. I'm in my boxer shorts and shirt. I'm going to take a bath and go to bed. But I want to shut the blinds so it's really dark in the room.
Danny DeVito

Bucket Translations

bucket in Danish is spand
bucket in Dutch is emmer
bucket in French is seau
bucket in German is Schaufel, Eimer, Eimer
bucket in Italian is secchio
bucket in Portuguese is balde, cubeta
bucket in Spanish is balde, cubo
bucket in Swedish is hink

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