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Conveyor :: Conveyor (n.) A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope..

Buckety :: Buckety (n.) Paste used by weavers to dress their webs.

Kibble :: Kibble (n.) A large iron bucket used in Cornwall and Wales for raising ore out of mines.

Soleplate :: Soleplate (n.) The plate forming the back of a waterwheel bucket.

Bucket Shop :: Bucket shop () An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc..

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate..

Sweep :: Sweep (n.) A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water..

Tub :: Tub (n.) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners.

Bail :: Bail (n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.

Trebucket :: Trebucket (n.) A military engine used in the Middle Ages for throwing stones, etc. It acted by means of a great weight fastened to the short arm of a lever, which, being let fall, raised the end of the long arm with great velocity, hurling stones with much force..

Box :: Box (n.) A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.

Force Pump :: Force pump () A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston..

Bucket :: Bucket (n.) A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc..

Noria :: Noria (n.) A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel..

Trebucket :: Trebucket (n.) A cucking stool; a tumbrel.

Pail :: Pail (n.) A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover..

Castigatory :: Castigatory (n.) An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket..

Trebucket :: Trebucket (n.) A kind of balance for weighing.

Lower :: Lower (a.) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag..

Plunger :: Plunger (n.) A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps..

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