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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Noria :: Noria (n.) A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel..
Kibble :: Kibble (n.) A large iron bucket used in Cornwall and Wales for raising ore out of mines.
Soleplate :: Soleplate (n.) The plate forming the back of a waterwheel bucket.
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket..
Shroud :: Shroud (n.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate..
Box :: Box (n.) A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.
Trebucket :: Trebucket (n.) A kind of balance for weighing.
Leg :: Leg (n.) The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
Castigatory :: Castigatory (n.) An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket..
Bucket Shop :: Bucket shop () An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc..
Bucket :: Bucket (n.) A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc..
Tub :: Tub (n.) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners.
Buckety :: Buckety (n.) Paste used by weavers to dress their webs.
Hurdy-gurdy :: Hurdy-gurdy (n.) In California, a water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet..
Start :: Start (v. i.) The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.
Onager :: Onager (n.) A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery..
Trebucket :: Trebucket (n.) A cucking stool; a tumbrel.
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..
Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined..
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..
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