buckets

noun

1
A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
“I need a bucket to carry the water from the well.”
2
The amount held in this container.
“The horse drank a whole bucket of water.”
3
A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
4
Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
5
An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
6
The basket.
“The forward drove to the bucket.”
7
A field goal.
“We can't keep giving up easy buckets.”
8
(variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
9
A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
10
(chiefly in the plural) A large amount of liquid.
“I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.”
11
A bucket bag.
12
The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
13
The pitcher in certain orchids.

1
To place inside a bucket.
2
To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
“to bucket water”
3
To rain heavily.
“It’s really bucketing down out there.”
4
To travel very quickly.
“The boat is bucketing along.”
5
To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
6
To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
7
To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

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