Definition of bucket

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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..

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Bailer :: Bailer (n.) A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit..
Kibble :: Kibble (n.) A large iron bucket used in Cornwall and Wales for raising ore out of mines.
Trebucket :: Trebucket (n.) A cucking stool; a tumbrel.
Castigatory :: Castigatory (n.) An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket..
Skip :: Skip (n.) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock..
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..
Plunger :: Plunger (n.) A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps..
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..
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket..
Leg :: Leg (n.) The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
Lower :: Lower (a.) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag..
Guide :: Guide (v. t.) A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.
Sweep :: Sweep (n.) A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water..
Bucket :: Bucket (n.) A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc..
Hurdy-gurdy :: Hurdy-gurdy (n.) In California, a water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet..
Trebucket :: Trebucket (n.) A kind of balance for weighing.
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..
Onager :: Onager (n.) A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery..
Ventilate :: Ventilate (v. t.) To provide with a vent, or escape, for air, gas, etc.; as, to ventilate a mold, or a water-wheel bucket..
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