bucketing Definition

bucket
noun

1. A round open-topped container for holding or carrying liquids and solids such as sand, etc.

Thesaurus: pail, basin, can, cask, pan, pitcher, barrel, vessel, bail.
2. A bucketful. See also weep, etc buckets below.

Example: need about two buckets of water
3. colloq
A rubbish-bin or wastepaper basket.
(Austral)
4. colloq
An icecream tub.
5. computing.
A subdivision of a data file, used to locate data.
6. The scoop of a dredging machine.

verb bucketed, bucketing

colloq:
intr
1. Said of rain: to pour down heavily.

Form: bucket down (also)
now usually intr
2. To drive or ride very hard or bumpily.

Example: bucketing down the hill
Form: bucket along (especially)
Form: bucket down
3. To put, lift or carry something in a bucket.

Idiom: kick the bucket

See under kick.

Idiom: rain buckets (weep etc buckets)

To rain or weep, etc long, hard and continuously.

Etymology: 13c: related to Anglo-French buket a pail, and Anglo-Saxon buc a pitcher.