Etymology

Noun

1. A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.

   I need a bucket to carry the water from the well.

2. The amount held in this container.

   The horse drank a whole bucket of water.

3. Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket.
4. An old car that is not in good working order.
5. The basket.

   The forward drove to the bucket.

6. A field goal.

   We can't keep giving up easy buckets.

7. A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
8. A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.

Verb

1. To place inside a bucket.
2. To rain heavily.
   • It’s really bucketing down out there.
3. To travel very quickly.
   • The boat is bucketing along.

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