Helen Fenton

Bucket: Definition and part of speech

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Bucket

  1. n. The valved piston of a lifting pump.
  2. n. A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.
  3. n. A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.
  4. n. One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bucket shop: Definition and part of speech

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Bucket shop

  1. An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Buckeye: Definition and part of speech

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Buckeye

  1. n. A cant name for a native in Ohio.
  2. n. A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Aesculus) as the horse chestnut.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Buckle: Definition and part of speech

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Buckle

  1. n. A contorted expression, as of the face.
  2. n. A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.
  3. n. A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
  4. n. A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
  5. n. To join in marriage.
  6. v. i. To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
  7. v. i. To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
  8. v. i. To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.