bucket
A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
Noun 4 meanings
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.”
The amount held in this container.
“The horse drank a whole bucket of water.”
A large amount of liquid.
“It rained buckets yesterday.”
A great deal of anything.
“My new suit cost me buckets.”
Verb 4 meanings
To place inside a bucket.
To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
“to bucket water”
To rain heavily.
“It’s really bucketing down out there.”
To travel very quickly.
“The boat is bucketing along.”
Etymology
From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod.
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BUCKET at a glance
BUCKET has 6 letters and scores 14 points in Scrabble (B 3 + U 1 + C 3 + K 5 + E 1 + T 1) and 17 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,237 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with bucket
All rhymesOne letter away
- BECKET14
- BUCKED15
- BUCKER14
- TUCKET12
- BUSKET12
- BACKET14
- SUCKET12
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