<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.</li><li>anything resembling or suggesting this.</li><li>Machinery: any of the scoops attached to or forming the endless chain in certain types of conveyors or elevators.</li><li>the scoop or clamshell of a steam shovel, power shovel, or dredge.</li><li>a vane or blade of a waterwheel, paddle wheel, water turbine, or the like.</li><li>(in a dam) a concave surface at the foot of a spillway for deflecting the downward flow of water.</li><li>a bucketful: a bucket of sand.</li><li>Basketball: Informal field goal.</li><li>the part of the keyhole extending from the foul line to the end line.</li><li>bucket seat.</li><li>Bowling: a leave of the two, four, five, and eight pins, or the three, five, six, and nine pins.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) British Dialect: to lift, carry, or handle in a bucket (often followed by up or out).</li><li>chiefly British: to ride (a horse) fast and without concern for tiring it.</li><li>to handle (orders, transactions, etc.) in or as if in a bucket shop.</li><li>(used without object) Informal: to move or drive fast; hurry.</li></ul>