Definition of bucket

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Bucket (n.) The valved piston of a lifting pump.

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Soleplate :: Soleplate (n.) The plate forming the back of a waterwheel bucket.
Hurdy-gurdy :: Hurdy-gurdy (n.) In California, a water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet..
Skip :: Skip (n.) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock..
Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined..
Start :: Start (v. i.) The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.
Kibble :: Kibble (n.) A large iron bucket used in Cornwall and Wales for raising ore out of mines.
Tub :: Tub (n.) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners.
Sludger :: Sludger (n.) A bucket for removing mud from a bored hole; a sand pump.
Elevator :: Elevator (n.) A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage..
Trebucket :: Trebucket (n.) A cucking stool; a tumbrel.
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..
Plunger :: Plunger (n.) A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps..
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..
Bucket :: Bucket (n.) The valved piston of a lifting pump.
Box :: Box (n.) A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.
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..
Bail :: Bail (n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.
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..
Spear :: Spear (n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod..
Cuvette :: Cuvette (n.) A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table..
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