a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.

anything resembling or suggesting this.

Machinery .

any of the scoops attached to or forming the endless chain in certain types of conveyors or elevators.

the scoop or clamshell of a steam shovel, power shovel, or dredge.

a vane or blade of a waterwheel, paddle wheel, water turbine, or the like.

(in a dam) a concave surface at the foot of a spillway for deflecting the downward flow of water.

a bucketful

a bucket of sand.

Basketball .

Informal . field goal.

the part of the keyhole extending from the foul line to the end line.

bucket seat.

Bowling . a leave of the two, four, five, and eight pins, or the three, five, six, and nine pins.

to lift, carry, or handle in a bucket (often fol. by up or out ).

Chiefly British . to ride (a horse) fast and without concern for tiring it.

to handle (orders, transactions, etc.) in or as if in a bucket shop.

Informal . to move or drive fast; hurry. ?

drop in the bucket, a small

usually inadequate amount in relation to what is needed or requested

The grant for research was just a drop in the bucket.

drop the bucket on, Australian Slang . to implicate, incriminate

or expose.

kick the bucket

Slang . to die

His children were greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket.

noun

brazier , can , canister , cask , hod , kettle , pail , pot , scuttle , vat , bail , barrel , cage , cheat , container , drench , hurry , scoop , swindle , tub , vessel

verb

bolt , bustle , dart , dash , festinate , flash , fleet , flit , fly , haste , hasten , hurry , hustle , pelt , race , rocket , run , sail , scoot , scour , shoot , speed , sprint , tear , trot , whirl , whisk , whiz , wing , zip , zoom