Definition of: bucket

(buk′it) noun
1. A deep cylindrical vessel, with a bail, for dipping or carrying liquids; a pail.
2. As much as a bucket will hold: also buck′et·ful′.
3. A compartment on a water wheel, or the like.
4. A piston, as in a lifting pump, with a valve opening upward.
—v.t. & v.i.
1. To draw or carry in a bucket.
2. Colloq. To ride (a horse) hard.
3. To move along rapidly.
—to kick the bucket Slang To die. [? <OF buket kind of tub; infl. by OE bucc pitcher]