bucket

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An open container with a handle, used for carrying liquids or other things

   I filled a bucket with water to wash the car.

2. 2
   noun

   The amount that a bucket holds

   The horse drank a whole bucket of water.

3. 3
   noun

   A large amount of something

   It rained buckets all weekend.

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.

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