bucket

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to carry in a bucket

   I bucketed the frogs.

2. 2
   verb

   to put into a pail or container

   I bucketed over three gallons of milk.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   The amount held in this container.

   The horse drank a whole bucket of water.

5. 5
   noun

   A large amount of liquid.

   It rained buckets yesterday.

6. 6
   noun

   A great deal of anything.

   My new suit cost me buckets.

7. 7
   noun

   The basket.

   The forward drove to the bucket.

8. 8
   noun

   A field goal.

   We can't keep giving up easy buckets.

Etymology

From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.