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noun
- A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
- I need a to carry the water from the well.
- (context, variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
- The amount held in this container.
- The horse drank a whole of water.
- Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a .
- (slang) An old car that is not in good working order.
- (context, basketball, colloquial) The basket.
- The forward drove to the .
- (context, basketball, colloquial) A field goal.
- ''We can't keep giving up easy buckets.
Translations: - Dutch: (t, nl, rammelkar, f)
- French: seau(fr)m
- German: Schaufel(de)f
- Italian: secchio,
- Spanish: m (italbrac(es, balde, m) (italbrac, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Eastern Cuba, Panama, Puerto Rico, South America, Spain's Canary Islands), Northern Spain(es, cubeta, m}} (italbrac, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua), m(es, cubo, m}} (italbrac, Spain standard usage, Cuban standard usage), t-, es, pozal) {{italbrac)specifically Aragon and Navarra, {{t-, es, tobo)Venezuela
verb
- (intransitive) (colloquial) To rain heavily.
- It"s really bucketing down out there.
- (intransitive) (colloquial) To travel very quickly.
- The boat is bucketing along.
- (transitive) To place inside a bucket.
Translations: - Dutch: vlammen(nl)
- French: pleuvoir í verse
- German: durchrí¼tteln(de)
Etymology: From boket; compare with Anglo-Saxon buc "belly, pitcher", or Cornish buket "tub".
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