bucket

Speech parts

1. bucket - Noun

2. bucket - Verb

3. Bucket - Proper noun

Meaning

A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.

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

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.

The valved piston of a lifting pump.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

speed pail bucketful bucket down hare spade hopper dipper brazier hod cup vat bale alembic cruse

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Antonyms

ray potter fleck dally dram mote

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Hypernyms

vessel place set position put equipment

Hyponyms

kibble cannikin slop jar slop pail dredging bucket dinner bucket

Phrases with the word

kick the bucket bucket list can't carry a tune in a bucket two tears in a bucket in the bucket mercy bucket

Examples

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. George Orwell

The past is a bucket of ashes. Carl Sandburg

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. Winston Churchill

A house without a woman is like a fire without a bucket. Bulgarian Proverb

When husband and wife live in harmony, they can dry up the ocean without a bucket. Vietnamese Proverb

The well gives, but the bucket refuses. Nigerian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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