Definition of bucket

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Bucket (n.) One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel..

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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..
Tub :: Tub (n.) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners.
Start :: Start (v. i.) The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.
Ventilate :: Ventilate (v. t.) To provide with a vent, or escape, for air, gas, etc.; as, to ventilate a mold, or a water-wheel bucket..
Sludger :: Sludger (n.) A bucket for removing mud from a bored hole; a sand pump.
Hudge :: Hudge (n.) An iron bucket for hoisting coal or ore.
Trebucket :: Trebucket (n.) A cucking stool; a tumbrel.
Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined..
Trebucket :: Trebucket (n.) A kind of balance for weighing.
Castigatory :: Castigatory (n.) An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket..
Guide :: Guide (v. t.) A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.
Buckety :: Buckety (n.) Paste used by weavers to dress their webs.
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..
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..
Turbine :: Turbine (n.) A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel..
Kibble :: Kibble (n.) A large iron bucket used in Cornwall and Wales for raising ore out of mines.
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..
Spear :: Spear (n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod..
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..
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