bucket Synonyms

bucket Meaning

Wordnet

bucket (n)

a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top

the quantity contained in a bucket

Wordnet

bucket (v)

put into a bucket

carry in a bucket

Webster

bucket (n.)

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

A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.

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.

The valved piston of a lifting pump.

Webster

bucket (v. t.)

To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water.

To pour over from a bucket; to drench.

To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.

To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

FAQs About the word bucket

a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top, the quantity contained in a bucket, put into a bucket, carry in a bucketA vessel for drawing up water from

slew, pile, quantity, stack, raft, bunch, wealth, plenty,loads, lot

drop, strain, modicum, mote, glimmer, ray, shade, lick, molecule, scruple

She carried a bucket filled to the brim with water from the well.

The farmer used a bucket to feed the chickens, tossing grains to the eager birds.

It started to rain heavily, and within minutes, the streets were filled with buckets of water.

The child happily played in the sand, using a bucket to build towering sandcastles.