bucket

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  1. noun A cylindrical vessel used for holding or carrying liquids or solids; a pail.
  2. noun The amount that a bucket can hold: One bucket of paint will be enough for the ceiling.
  3. noun A unit of dry measure in the U.S. Customary System equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters). See Table at measurement.
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  • When Catherine had been alive, she had made sure the bucket was always full of ice, no matter what time, day or night. —  Garwood, Julie - Mercy
  • Then I saw next to the bucket was a big stone block, all black with blood. —  The Hard Way by Lee Child
  • "I'll run it," she said A few moments later the bucket was at ground level again. —  090 - Tunnel Terror
  • The stove is so light that, in marching, the pipe is removed and a rope run through the openings, which enables it to be tied underneath the wagon, beside the bucket which is always suspended there to be used to water the horses The general was busy in the adjutant's tent, so I sent for the sergeant, who was our factotum, and asked him to hunt up the Sibley stove. —  BOOTS AND SADDLES: OR LIFE IN DAKOTA WITH GENERAL CUSTER
  • He pulls down the cord to which the bucket is attached, until the bucket dips into the water and is filled, while at the same time he raises the lump of mud at the other end of the balance. —  Chatterbox, 1906
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pail ·  tub ·  bowl ·  cans ·  basket ·  pan ·  container ·  tray ·  jar ·  barrel ·  sack ·  bag

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bucket:   buckets
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French buket, of Germanic origin.

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  1. Early modern English also bocket, from Middle English boket, bokette, bokat, of uncertain origin, perhaps Celtic, from Irish buicead = Gaelic bucaid, a bucket, = Cornish buket, a tub (Diefenbach), which forms, if not from English, are connected with Irish buicead, a knob, boss, Gaelic bucaid, a pustule, from Irish bocaim, I swell, = Gaelic boc, swell; less prob. connected with Anglo-Saxon būc (or buc), a pitcher, jug (Latin lagena, hydria). Cf. English boak, dial. a pail.
  2. from bucket, n.
  3. apparently < Old French buquet, a balance: see bucket, n.
 

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