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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..

Bucket Shop :: Bucket shop () An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc..

Hudge :: Hudge (n.) An iron bucket for hoisting coal or ore.

Onager :: Onager (n.) A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery..

Start :: Start (v. i.) The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.

Bucket :: Bucket (n.) A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids..

Bucket :: Bucket (n.) The valved piston of a lifting pump.

Guide :: Guide (v. t.) A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.

Cuvette :: Cuvette (n.) A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table..

Trebucket :: Trebucket (n.) A kind of balance for weighing.

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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.

Bailer :: Bailer (n.) A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit..

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.

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