Bucket /(?)/

1. A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.

   The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.

2. A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.
3. One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel. (Mach.)
4. The valved piston of a lifting pump.
5. one of vanes on the rotor of a turbine. (Mach.)
6. a bucketfull. (Mach.)

imp. & p. p. Bucketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bucketing

1. To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water.
2. To pour over from a bucket; to drench.
3. To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
4. To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body. (Rowing) [Eng.]