noun

1. a deep, round container with a flat bottom and a curved handle, used to hold or carry water, coal, etc.; pail
2. the amount held by a bucket
   also bucketful buck′·et·ful′
3. 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
4. Slang the rump; buttocks

Etymology: ME boket < Anglo-Fr buket, dim. of OE buc, pitcher, bulging vessel, orig., belly < IE *bhou-, var. of base *bheu-: see big

transitive verb, intransitive verb

1. to carry, draw, or lift (water, etc.) in a bucket or buckets
2. to speculate (with) dishonestly as in a bucket shop
3. Brit.
   1. to ride (a horse) at a fast pace
   2. to move or drive rapidly or recklessly