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bucket
noun
- a deep, round container with a flat bottom and a curved handle, used to hold or carry water, coal, etc.; pail
- the amount held by a bucketalso bucketful
- a thing like a bucket, as a scoop on a steam shovel, any of the cups on a water wheel, or any of the curved vanes in the rotor of a turbine
- Slang the rump; buttocks
transitive verb, intransitive verb
- to carry, draw, or lift (water, etc.) in a bucket or buckets
- to speculate (with) dishonestly as in a bucket shop
- Brit.
- to ride (a horse) at a fast pace
- to move or drive rapidly or recklessly
See bucket in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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