2. To pour over from a bucket; to drench.
3. To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
4. (Rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a
certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
[Eng.]
The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The
moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.
--Wordsworth.
2. A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying
coal, ore, grain, etc.
3. (Mach.) 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.
4. The valved piston of a lifting pump.
{Fire bucket}, a bucket for carrying water to put out fires.
{To kick the bucket}, to die. [Low]