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1. A roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top
   - pail
    
2. The quantity contained in a bucket
   - bucketful
    
3. (informal) a large number or quantity
   - shedload [Brit], truckload, gob [N. Amer], bucketload, ton

1. Put into a bucket
    
2. Carry in a bucket
    
3. [Brit] Rain heavily
   "Put on your rain coat-- it's raining buckets outside!";
   - pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets, chuck [Brit], teem, chuck it down [Brit], tip [Brit]
    
4. Move along very quickly
   - zoom, zoom along, whizz, whizz along, rocket, barrel, belt

Derived forms: bucketed, bucketing, buckets

Type of: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, carry, containerful, hasten, hie [archaic], hotfoot, hurry, lay, pelt along, place, pose, position, put, race, rain, rain down, rush, rush along, set, speed, step on it, transport, travel rapidly, vessel, zip

Part of: water wheel, waterwheel

Encyclopedia: Bucket