Definition of bucket

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

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Bailer :: Bailer (n.) A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit..
Spear :: Spear (n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod..
Tub :: Tub (n.) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners.
Cuvette :: Cuvette (n.) A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table..
Hudge :: Hudge (n.) An iron bucket for hoisting coal or ore.
Bail :: Bail (n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.
Guide :: Guide (v. t.) A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.
Bucket :: Bucket (n.) A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids..
Bucket :: Bucket (n.) The valved piston of a lifting pump.
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..
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..
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..
Trebucket :: Trebucket (n.) A kind of balance for weighing.
Hurdy-gurdy :: Hurdy-gurdy (n.) In California, a water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet..
Trebucket :: Trebucket (n.) A cucking stool; a tumbrel.
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..
Plunger :: Plunger (n.) A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps..
Cage :: Cage (n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft..
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..
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