Noun
The long line of people, in a primitive firefighting technique, who pass buckets of water hand-to-hand from the nearest water source to the site of a fire, in an attempt to douse it.
(by extension) any process in which something is passed along a chain.
(electronics) A discrete-time analogue delay line that moves a signal along a line of capacitors, one step at each clock cycle.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgA bucket brigade is a doubly-linked list of buckets. Source: Internet
Boardman said a team from EBMUD put together a bucket brigade to catch a few of the fish from the base of the spillway and return them to Lake Chabot. Source: Internet
It was with the assistance of a bucket brigade of over 1,000 volunteers that the fire department was able to control the fire. Source: Internet