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a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids. The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. Wordsworth.

An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc. [Slang, U.S.]

Paste used by weavers to dress their webs. Buchanan.

A cucking stool; a tumbrel. Cowell.

A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat. [Obs.] The bail of a canoe . . . made of a human skull. Capt. Cook.

A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit.

A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.

The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.

formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket. Blacktone.

in, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.

A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.

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.

e boxes, etc. -- Fire brigade, an organized body of men for extinguished fires. -- Fire bucket. See under Bucket. -- Fire bug, an incendiary; one who, from malice or through mania, persistently sets fire to property; a pyromaniac. [U.S.] -- Fire clay. See under Clay. -- Fire company, a company of men managing an en…

g and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston.

projectile. -- Horizontal water wheel, a water wheel in which the axis is vertical, the buckets or floats revolving in a horizontal plane, as in most turbines.

An iron bucket for hoisting coal or ore. Raymond.

In California, a water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet.

A large iron bucket used in Cornwall and Wales for raising ore out of mines. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also kibbal.]

er arm of a loaded balance; hence, to be found wanting in weight. Milton. -- To kick the bucket, to lose one's life; to die. [Colloq. & Low]

his own responsibility without regard to party lines or deference to authority. -- Lance bucket (Cavalry), a socket attached to a saddle or stirrup strap, in which to rest the but of a lance. -- Lance corporal, same as Lancepesade. -- Lance knight, a lansquenet. B. Jonson. -- Lance snake (Zoöl.), the fer-de-lance.…