buck·et /ˈbʌkət/
 桶,吊桶,水桶


 bucket
 桶; 貯體; 儲存區


 bucket
 雙桶( 儲存器 )


 bucket
 桶 包


 Buck·et n.
 1. A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.
 The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,
 The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.   --Wordsworth.
 2. A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.
 3. Mach. 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.
 4. The valved piston of a lifting pump.
 Fire bucket, a bucket for carrying water to put out fires.
 To kick the bucket, to die. [Low]


 Buck·et v. t.  [imp. & p. p. Bucketed p. pr. & vb. n. Bucketing.]
 1. To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water.
 2.  To pour over from a bucket; to drench.
 3.  To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
 4.  Rowing To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body. [Eng.]

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 bucket
      n 1: a roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top [syn: pail]
      2: the quantity contained in a bucket [syn: bucketful]
      v 1: put into a bucket
      2: carry in a bucket


 Bucket
    a vessel to draw water with (Isa. 40:15); used figuratively,
    probably, of a numerous issue (Num. 24:7).