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bucket noun 1 a round open-topped container for holding or carrying liquids and solids such as sand, etc. 2 a bucketful • need about two buckets of water. See also rain, weep, etc buckets below. 3 colloq a rubbish-bin or wastepaper basket. 4 Austral colloq an icecream tub. 5 computing a subdivision of a data file, used to locate data. 6 the scoop of a dredging machine. verb (bucketed, bucketing) colloq 1 (also bucket down) intrans said of rain: to pour down heavily. 2 (especially bucket along or down) now usually intr to drive or ride very hard or bumpily • bucketing down the hill. 3 to put, lift or carry something in a bucket. kick the bucket see under kick. rain buckets, weep buckets, etc to rain or weep, etc long, hard and continuously.
ETYMOLOGY: 13c: related to Anglo-French buket a pail, and Anglo-Saxon buc a pitcher.