| Bucket (n.) A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids. |
| Bucket (n.) A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc. |
| Bucket (n.) One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve |
| Bucket (n.) The valved piston of a lifting pump. |
| Bucket shop () An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc. |
| bucket / pail a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top |
| bucket seat a low single seat as in cars or planes |
| bucket shop (formerly) a cheap saloon selling liquor by the bucket |
| dinner pail / dinner bucket a pail in which a workman carries his lunch or dinner |
| dredging bucket a bucket for lifting material from a channel or riverbed |
| wine bucket / wine cooler a bucket of ice used to chill a bottle of wine |
| bucket shop an unethical or overly aggressive brokerage firm |
| bucket / bucketful the quantity contained in a bucket |
| die / decease / perish / go / exit / pass away / expire / pass b kick the bucket / cash in one's chips / buy the farm / conk / give-up the ghost / drop dead / pop off / choke croak / snuff it pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life, "She died from cancer", "The children perished in the fire", "The patient went peacefully", "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of" |
| bucket carry in a bucket |