[1] There was a big hole in the ceiling with water dripping into a bucket.
bucket
1. subst. 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. subst. The amount held in this container.
The horse drank a whole bucket of water.
3. subst. (archaic) A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
4. subst. Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
5. subst. (slang) An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
6. subst. (basketball, informal) The basket.
The forward drove to the bucket.
7. subst. (basketball, informal) A field goal.
We can't keep giving up easy buckets.
8. subst. (variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
9. subst. (computing) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
10. subst. (informal, chiefly plural) A large amount of liquid.
It rained buckets yesterday.
I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.
11. subst. A bucket bag.
12. subst. The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
13. subst. 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.
scuttle
1. Eimer, Kohleneimer
scuttle
1. subst. A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
2. subst. A broad, shallow basket.
3. subst. (obsolete, Northern England, and Scotland) A dish, platter or a trencher.
4. subst. A small hatch or opening in a boat. Also, small opening in a boat or ship for draining water from open deck.
5. subst. (construction) A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
6. v. (transitive, nautical) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
7. v. To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.
8. v. (transitive, by extension, in figurative use) Undermine or thwart oneself (sometimes intentionally), or denigrate or destroy one's position or property; compare scupper.
The candidate had scuttled his chances with his unhinged outburst.
9. v. (intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.
10. subst. A quick pace; a short run.
gravity bong
gravity bong
1. subst. A homemade device used to smoke marijuana, consisting of a plastic jug with the bottom cut out and immersed in a vat of water, which is then raised to create a vacuum beneath its bowl of lit marijuana
