| bucket |  | |
| 1. n. A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items. | |
| I need a bucket to carry the water from the well. | |
| 2. n. The amount held in this container. | |
| The horse drank a whole bucket of water. | |
| 3. n. (archaic) A unit of measure equal to four gallons. | |
| 4. n. Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container). | |
| 5. n. (slang) An old vehicle that is not in good working order. | |
| 6. n. (basketball, informal) The basket. | |
| The forward drove to the bucket. | |
| 7. n. (basketball, informal) A field goal. | |
| We can't keep giving up easy buckets. | |
| 8. n. (variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement. | |
| 9. n. (computing) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key. | |
| 10. n. (informal, chiefly plural) A large amount of liquid. | |
| It rained buckets yesterday. | |
| I was so nervous that I sweated buckets. | |
| 11. n. A bucket bag. | |
| 12. n. The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted. | |
| 13. n. The pitcher in certain orchids. | |
| 14. v. To place inside a bucket. | |
| 15. v. To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets. | |
| to bucket water | |
| 16. v. (intransitive, informal) To rain heavily. | |
| 17. v. (intransitive, informal) To travel very quickly. | |
| 18. v. (computing, transitive) To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items. | |
| 19. v. To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly. | |
| 20. v. (transitive, UK, US, rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body. | |
