Definition of bucket

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

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Bail :: Bail (n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.
Cage :: Cage (n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft..
Hudge :: Hudge (n.) An iron bucket for hoisting coal or ore.
Tub :: Tub (n.) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners.
Guide :: Guide (v. t.) A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.
Buckety :: Buckety (n.) Paste used by weavers to dress their webs.
Spear :: Spear (n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod..
Trebucket :: Trebucket (n.) A military engine used in the Middle Ages for throwing stones, etc. It acted by means of a great weight fastened to the short arm of a lever, which, being let fall, raised the end of the long arm with great velocity, hurling stones with much force..
Turbine :: Turbine (n.) A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel..
Leg :: Leg (n.) The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
Bucket :: Bucket (n.) 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..
Elevator :: Elevator (n.) A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage..
Box :: Box (n.) A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.
Start :: Start (v. i.) The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.
Trebucket :: Trebucket (n.) A cucking stool; a tumbrel.
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket..
Soleplate :: Soleplate (n.) The plate forming the back of a waterwheel bucket.
Bucket :: Bucket (n.) The valved piston of a lifting pump.
Conveyor :: Conveyor (n.) A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope..
Bucket Shop :: Bucket shop () An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc..
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