bucketn.1
/ˈbʌkɪt/, U.S. /ˈbəkət/ 1.
a. ‘The vessel in which water is drawn out of a well’.
b. ‘The vessels in which water is carried, particularly to quench a fire’ (Johnson).Buckets were formerly made of leather or wood; now of various materials, esp. metal or plastics. They are used as containers for many things. The local application of the word varies greatly: in the south-east of England and in U.S. a bucket is a round wooden pail with arched handle; in south of Scotland it is a 4-sided wooden vessel for carrying salt, coal, ashes, etc.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > bucket or pail > [noun]
stopc725
amberOE
skeelc1330
pail1341
bucketa1382
stoup1397
eshin1547
whinnock1555
bowk1663
cruck1688
noggin1843
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xl. 15 As a drope of a boket.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3306 Wantes vs here..Ne mele, ne bucket, ne funell.
1423 Kingis Quair 70 As Tantalus..Water to draw wt buket botemles.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 42 Bokett, situla, mergus.
1552–3 Inv. Ch. Goods Staffords. 12 A pix of masten, a bokett of brasse, vj alter cloths.
1608 W. Shakespeare Richard II iv. i. 175 Like a deepe Well, That owes two Buckets filling one an other, The emptier euer dauncing in the ayre, The other downe vnseene, and full of Water.
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 4 Like children at Iacobs well..without a bucket.
1715 J. Gay What d'ye call It Introd. 3 Fetch the leathern bucket that hangs in the bellfry.
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. xi. 263 There are faggots and a bucket of sea-coal in the stone-chest.
1852 Leisure Hour 632 The blocks of stone which contain the ore are brought up in buckets.
1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 427/1 India Rubber Bucket, Rope Handle... Canvas Bucket.
1907 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 181/1 Fire Buckets.., tinned steel, with iron handles, painted red and lettered.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. vi. [Hades] 99 A server, bearing a brass bucket with something in it, came out through a door.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiii. [Nausicaa] 339 The rain falling on the rusty bucket.
1969 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring–Summer 1269/1 Ice bucket..made of easy-clean vinyl with a clear plastic cover.
c. Phrase, to give the bucket to: to dismiss; cf. give the bag, the sack. to kick the bucket: see bucket n.2 Phrases.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > send away or dismiss > unceremoniously
to send packingc1450
trussa1500
to go (send, etc.) away with a flea in one's ear1577
to set packing1577
pack1589
ship1594
to send away with a fly in one's ear1606
to give a packing penny to1609
to pack off1693
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
to send about one's business1728
trundle1794
to send to the right about (also rightabouts)1816
bundle1823
to give the bucket to1863
shake1872
to give (a person) the finger1874
to give (a person) the pushc1886
to give (someone or something) the chuck1888
to give (someone) the gate1918
to get the (big) bird1924
to tie a can to (or on)1926
to give (a person) (his or her) running shoes1938
to give (someone) the Lonsdale1958
1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers II. vii. 122 He were sore put about because Hester had gi'en him the bucket.
2. The piston of an ordinary lift-pump.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > pump > [noun] > plunger or piston
box1531
pump shoe1534
shoe1576
force1596
pestle1604
bucket1634
forcer1634
plug1642
syringe1659
ram1875
1634 J. Bate Myst. Nature & Art 9 If you lift the sweepe, it will thrust down the bucket upon the water.
1659 J. Leak tr. I. de Caus New Inventions Water-works 17 The Sucker..sustains the Water when the Buckets or Suckers of the Pumps are not lifted up.
1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) I. 183 This piston is then called the bucket.
3.
a. One of the compartments on the circumference of a waterwheel, which retain the water while they descend; one of the scoops of a dredging machine; one of the series of metal cups on the endless band of a grain-elevator.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > elevator > bucket-elevator > part of
bucket1760
1760 J. Smeaton in Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 133 If a stream of water falls into the bucket of an overshot wheel, it is there retained till the wheel by moving round discharges it.
1812 J. Playfair Outl. Nat. Philos. I. 209 The momentum of the water in the buckets is equal to the momentum of the resistance.
1831 D. Lardner Hydrostatics x. 198 On the rim of the wheel..a number of cavities, called buckets, are constructed.
b. A scoop operated by power, used for hoisting coal, grain, etc., and in dredging and excavating.
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1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 396/1 Bucket,..3. (Hydraulic Engineering) The scoop of a dredging machine.
1881 Proc. Instit. Civil Engineers 65 312 A modification of the bucket [dredger]..with strong curved steel arms..to which the makers have given the name of ‘grab’.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 531/2 Grabs or buckets for dredging purposes.
4. transferred.† a. A cooler over an alembic.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > still > [noun] > other parts of still
bucket1594
shank1600
bolt-head1612
rostrum1654
glass-belly1681
still-head1694
condenser1874
1594 H. Plat Diuers Chimicall Concl. Distillation 3 in Jewell House The bucket, or cooler in the head [of the Limbeck].
b. A leathern socket or rest for the whip in driving, or for the carbine or lance as part of cavalry equipment.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > lance > rest for lance
fewtera1375
rest1391
queue1830
bucket1833
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > [noun] > art of driving horse-drawn vehicle > whip > rest for
bucket1863
1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. iii. 103 Draw the carbine from the bucket.
1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. v. 161 The lance is to rest with the butt-end in the bucket on the right stirrup.
1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Inside Bar (ed. 12) 250 I put the whip in the bucket, and drove steadily on.
c. The socket for the stump in an artificial leg or arm.
d. A canvas-covered frame used as a signal for boats.
e. Applied to the ‘pitcher’ in certain orchids.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids > parts of
cullions1611
thyrsus1704
labellum1810
retinaculum1821
rostellum1821
caudicle1830
pseudobulb1832
massula1856
antenna1862
clinandrium1864
bucket1871
slipper1902
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) II. ix. 178 A bucket, with an aperture like a spout, is formed in an orchid.
5. Rowing. [ < bucket v. 5] ‘A plunge forward with the body when the stroke is concluded before the arms have been straightened out, and the hands at least passed the knees’ ( Encycl. Sport).
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society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [noun] > rowing > style of rowing > jerk
bucket1888
hoick1898
1888 W. B. Woodgate Boating (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iv. 70 Lateness in swing may arise per se, and so may a ‘bucket’.
1898 R. P. P. Rowe et al. Rowing (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 35 The swing forward should be kept as slow as is reasonably possible, and a ‘bucket’ avoided.
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bucket bag n. a woman's bag, resembling a bucket in shape.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > woman's bag
ridicule1799
indispensable1800
reticule1801
pocketbook1830
handbag1873
purse bag1881
chain-bag1902
peggy bag1904
Dorothy bag1907
peggy purse1911
pochette1912
dolly-bag1926
purse1940
bucket bag1956
1956 ‘J. Bell’ Death in Retirement iv. 49 Mrs. Weaver produced a fat envelope from her bucket bag.
1959 Woman 31 Oct. 74/3 Her hand crept down to take a purse from the open bucket bag.
bucket chain n. (a) a chain linked to a bucket; (b) a line of persons formed to pass buckets of water or sand to a conflagration.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > others
polancre1356
spindle1398
wrest1584
handscrew?1660
sea-crab1689
lewis1743
crab1753
wheel and axle (also axis)1773
tippler1831
fall1834
outrigger hoist1835
lewisson1842
power hoist1869
tipper1870
lifting screw1885
powerlifter1909
bucket chain1911
bracket-crab-
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > [noun] > a line or row > specifically of people or animals > formed for a specific purpose > passing buckets of water
bucket chain1911
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > [noun] > fire-fighting > a substance or apparatus for extinguishing > bucket > chain of persons using
bucket chain1911
1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 21 Apr. 14/3 It was expected the dredger would be ready about a week ago but the bucket chain slipped and some time was occupied in replacing this.
1932 Daily Express 28 June 1/2 When one fire brigade failed, the village girls..assisted the men in a ‘bucket chain’ until another brigade arrived.
bucket-door n. the cover of an opening which gives access to the buckets of a pump.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > pump > [noun] > other parts of pumps
pump box1422
pump-staff1422
pump-tree1617
branch1659
pump rod1731
pear-gauge1753
barometer-gauge1783
bucket-door1797
head1824
balance-bob1838
suction primer1875
cup-leather1889
airline1893
1797 J. Curr Coal Viewer 74 Cross Bars and Bolts for Bucket and Clack Doors.
bucket dredge n. = bucket-dredger n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > earth-moving and excavating equipment > [noun] > dredging equipment
dredge1471
clam-shell1508
drag1611
steam dredge1801
dredging-machine1830
hedgehog1838
bag and spoon1840
hydrophore1842
dredger1863
gold dredge1881
gold dredger1897
suction dredge1901
bucket dredge1907
cutter-dredge1913
1907 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 55 1009/1 The gold may rest in crevices, from which the bucket dredge could not collect it.
bucket-dredger n. a dredge that excavates by means of scoops or buckets.
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1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 530/2 Where it is necessary to finish off the dredging work to a uniform flat bottom..bucket dredgers are better adapted.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 5 Nov. 7/3 A twin-screw, self-propelling bucket dredger.
1930 Engineering 15 Aug. 195/3 The bucket dredger is the only type which has been uniformly successful from the time of its introduction.
bucket-dredging n.
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society > occupation and work > industry > diving or dredging > [noun] > dredging > specific method
bucket-dredging1898
suction dredging1965
1898 Engin. Mag. 16 116/1 The bucket-dredging-apparatus.
bucket-elevator n. [elevator n. 3a] a chain of buckets for raising material or liquids to a higher level.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > elevator > bucket-elevator
bucket-ladder1877
bucket-elevator1903
1903 Chambers's Jrnl. 30 May 415/2 The grain is then lifted by a bucket-elevator to the upper deck.
1930 Engineering 25 July 102/3 The function of the bucket elevators..on the main washing plant..will thus be understood.
bucket-engine n. a machine having buckets attached to an endless chain running over sprocket-wheels, so as to utilize the power of a small stream of water with a good fall.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > for raising water
well bucket1477
flail?a1500
kettle-mill1570
scoop1580
water engine1611
chain-pumpa1618
cochlea1648
water-screw1648
engine1652
bucket-fountain1663
chain1682
noria1696
tub-engine1702
tub-gin1702
well-pole1727
screw engine1729
rag1747
rag pump1747
swape1773
picotah1780
water balance1800
ram1801
well sweep1818
shadoof1836
hydraulic belt1856
water carrier1875
bailer1883
trip-bucket1926
1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions Index 3 A Bucket-fountain [How to raise water constantly with two Buckets onely—art. 21].
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bucket-hook n. U.S. a contrivance for attaching a bucket to the sugar-maple tree, for the purpose of catching the sap.
bucket-ladder n. (see quot. 1877).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > elevator > bucket-elevator
bucket-ladder1877
bucket-elevator1903
1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 464/2 The main feature of the machine [sc. steam dredger] is the bucket-ladder... Along this ladder a series of buckets traverse which cut into the bottom..and return loaded with the excavated material.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 529/1 Bucket-Ladder Dredgers.
bucket-lift n. a set of iron pipes attached to a lift-pump.
bucket-pump n. a lift-pump.
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bucket-rod n. a rod carrying the piston of a lift-pump.
bucket-rope n. (see quot.).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > rope attached to bucket or swab
bucket-rope1627
swab-rope1867
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vi. 27 The Bucket rope that is tied to the Bucket by which you hale and draw water vp by the ships side.
1627 J. Taylor Armado sig. B2v The Guestrope, Bucketrope, and Porterope..were all of rare stuffs, of great price.
bucket-seat n. in a motor car, aeroplane, etc., a seat partly resembling a bucket in shape.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > parts and equipment of vehicles generally > [noun] > seat > of specific type or position
driver's seata1726
side seat1742
driving seat1788
back seata1832
aisle seat1838
car seat1850
reclining seat1857
window seat1862
passenger seat1867
seat-board1873
garden seat1884
bucket-seat1908
shotgun1940
Sleeperette1950
sleeper seat1960
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > fuselage > cockpit or flight deck > type of seat for pilot
bucket-seat1908
1908 Westm. Gaz. 29 Oct. 4/1 One is fitted with a luxurious body and the other left bare with two bucket-seats.
1919 Autocar Handbk. (ed. 9) 229 Bucket or armchair seats are sometimes fitted.
1943 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 47 Abstr. 212 The prone position is less tiring [to the pilot] than the normal bucket seat.
1958 Vogue June 129/1 Individual bucket seats are ideal, since they allow both driver and passenger to their own requirements.
bucket-valve n. a round valve employed in the air-pump of a steam-engine.
bucket-well n. a well from which the water is drawn by a bucket.
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > well
water piteOE
wellOE
pitOE
pulkc1300
draw-wellc1410
draught-wellc1440
winchc1440
brine-well1594
salt spring1601
sump1680
pump well1699
spout-well1710
sump hole1754
pit-well1756
sink1804
bucket-well1813
artesian well1829
shallow well1877
dip-well1894
garland-well1897
village pump1925
1813 Examiner 11 Jan. 22/1 The female was found in a bucket well.
bucket-wheel n. an ancient contrivance for raising water, consisting of buckets fixed round a wheel, or attached to a rope passing round a wheel, which fill at the bottom and empty themselves into a trough at the top; also, an overshot or breast wheel operated by the impulse and weight of the water falling into the buckets or receptacles on its rim.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > for raising water > wheel for raising water
waterwheel1591
Persian wheel1649
sakia1687
noria1696
Egyptian wheel1793
bucket-wheel1797
tabut1836
pot-wheel1852
tympan1858
irrigation-wheel1864
spider-wheel1868
tympanum1875
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > driven by water
waterwheel1408
flood-wheel1515
breast wheel1744
overshot1760
undershot wheel1760
breast-shot1775
bucket-wheel1797
tub-wheel1815
flutter-wheel1817
danaide1825
wheel1842
reaction waterwheel1847
reaction wheel1852
tide-wheel1864
hurdy-gurdy1868
stream-wheel1875
paddle wheela1884
Pelton1885
turbine-pump1900
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 904/1 A bucket-wheel has been executed lately..of a construction entirely new.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XII. 523/1 When..the supply is from 3 to 25 cubic feet per second, it is possible to construct a bucket wheel on which the water acts chiefly by its weight.
1970 Times 23 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. vi/3 (caption) A giant bucket-wheel excavator scooping up oil-bearing tar sands.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
bucketn.2
A beam or yoke on which anything may be hung or carried.
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the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > that by which something is suspended > a beam or yoke
bucket1570
perk1620
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Giiiv/2 A Bucket, beame, tollo.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 261 Swifter then he that gibbets on the brewers bucket . View more context for this quotation
1888 N.E.D. at Bucket Mod. Newspaper. The beam on which a pig is suspended after he has been slaughtered is called in Norfolk, even in the present day, a ‘bucket’. Since he is suspended by his heels, the phrase to ‘kick the bucket’ came to signify to die.
Phrases
Hence (perhaps) to kick the bucket; (slang) to die.
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1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue To kick the bucket, to die.
1806 ‘P. Pindar’ Tristia 15 Pitt has kick'd the bucket.
1810 R. Tannahill Poems (1846) 57 Till time himsel' turn auld and kick the bucket.
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xxx. 213 He drained it dry..and ‘kicked the bucket’.
1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. ii. 32 Talking about kicking the bucket.
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bucket list n. [after to kick the bucket at Phrases; popularized by the title of the film The Bucket List (2007): see quot. 2006] colloquial a list of things that a person hopes to experience or achieve during his or her lifetime.
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2006 UPI Newswire (Nexis) 29 June Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman are set to star in ‘The Bucket List’, about two cancer patients... The two terminally ill men make a wish list of things they want to do before they kick the bucket—called the bucket list—then take a road trip.
2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Apr. (Travel section) 12/4 Maureen..had wanted to visit the Galápagos Islands for years. ‘It was on my bucket list,’ she said.
2011 C. R. Parker Next Phase of Life xxviii. 202 She was about to scratch off one goal on her bucket list.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
bucketv.
/ˈbʌkɪt/, U.S. /ˈbəkət/ 1. transitive. To lift (water) in buckets; also with out, up. Also figurative.
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the world > matter > liquid > action or process of extracting > extract liquid [verb (transitive)] > in buckets, esp. from a well
ladec950
draw?a1300
lavec1374
raise1607
bucket1640
1640 ‘Ben-Arod Gad’ Wandering-Jew 17 Deepe wells by continuall bucketting the water out, are in the end drawne dry.
1872 A. J. Ellis in Philol. Soc. Trans. (1873) 31 The Greek, that great well whence we bucket up our abstract terms.
2.
a. To pour buckets of water over; to drench.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > make very wet [verb (transitive)]
drenchc1000
washc1275
drowna1300
drunkena1300
drunka1382
bewetc1400
bedrenchc1450
bucka1513
sowp1513
drooka1522
sousea1542
soaken1577
overdrown1579
soss1587
embay1590
steep1590
overdrencha1592
embathe1593
indrench1593
imbue1594
douse1606
besob1609
bucket1621
sob1625
dash1670
sop1682
saturate1696
float1729
water1754
sodden1812
douche1864
poach1881
tosh1883
sod1895
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. ii. 315 He would haue his patient..to be bucketed or haue the water powred on his head.
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 194 Wo be to him whose Head is bucketed with Waters of a scalding Bath.
b. intransitive. Of rain, etc.: to pour down heavily.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > rain falls [verb (intransitive)] > rain heavily
ropec1450
to ding down1554
to come down1597
to ding onc1650
to rain cats and dogs1661
sile1703
pour1737
teem1753
pepper1767
flood1813
to rain pitchforks1815
rash1824
spate1853
bucket1926
tipplea1930
piss1948
1926 Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 844/1 Tramps don't walk about a marsh in bucketing rain in the midnight hours.
1970 Woman 21 Feb. 45/1 She stood, umbrella-less..not even a headscarf between her and the bucketing sky.
3. slang. To cheat, swindle.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle
defraud1362
deceivec1380
plucka1500
lurch1530
defeata1538
souse1545
lick1548
wipe1549
fraud1563
use1564
cozen1573
nick1576
verse1591
rooka1595
trim1600
skelder1602
firk1604
dry-shave1620
fiddle1630
nose1637
foista1640
doa1642
sharka1650
chouse1654
burn1655
bilk1672
under-enter1692
sharp1699
stick1699
finger1709
roguea1714
fling1749
swindle1773
jink1777
queer1778
to do over1781
jump1789
mace1790
chisel1808
slang1812
bucket1819
to clean out1819
give it1819
to put in the hole1819
ramp1819
sting1819
victimize1839
financier1840
gum1840
snakea1861
to take down1865
verneuk1871
bunco1875
rush1875
gyp1879
salt1882
daddle1883
work1884
to have (one) on toast1886
slip1890
to do (a person) in the eye1891
sugar1892
flay1893
to give (someone) the rinky-dink1895
con1896
pad1897
screw1900
short-change1903
to do in1906
window dress1913
ream1914
twist1914
clean1915
rim1918
tweedle1925
hype1926
clip1927
take1927
gazump1928
yentz1930
promote1931
to take (someone) to the cleaners1932
to carve up1933
chizz1948
stiff1950
scam1963
to rip off1969
to stitch up1970
skunk1971
to steal (someone) blind1974
diddle-
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) To bucket a person is synonymous with putting him in the well.
1828 W. Scott Jrnl. 28 May (1941) 257 Thurtell..must, in slang phrase, have bucketed his palls.
4. To ride (a horse) hard, reckless of his fatigue; to ‘pump’ (take it out of him by bucketfuls). Also, to move or drive (a vehicle, etc.) roughly or jerkily. Also intransitive.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > exhaust (a horse) by excessive riding
override1609
jade1615
blow1651
to ride down1682
to sew up1826
to stump up1853
bucket1856
stump1883
society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > ride (a horse) rapidly > heavily
bucket1856
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > drive a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > violently
throw1845
bucket1856
to throw about1917
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > [verb (intransitive)] > move jerkily or roughly (of a vehicle)
welter1487
bucket1911
1856 [implied in: G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Coventry xi I had rather give Brilliant a good ‘bucketting’..over an even heath or a line of grass. (at bucketing n. 2c)].
1868 Tottenham C. Villars I. 243 Bucketing his wretched horse home to Cambridge.
1879 L. Wingfield My Lords of Strogue iv He..was painfully alive to the possibility of finding his daughter stolen one day,..to be bucketed about the country without a change of linen till his reluctant consent was wrung.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 13 Dec. 10/2 He..was bucketed about the garrisons from the Canadas and Cape Breton to the Mediterranean.
1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling i. 10 The coach bumped and bucketed over boulders.
1921 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 233/1 Poor preparation..for bucketing about the Baltic all the following day.
1922 Chambers's Jrnl. 437/2 The envious beggar..buckets his old boat along for nothing.
1944 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 48 276 There is little tendency to swing or bucket.
1944 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 48 280 The aircraft can be taxied fast without danger of bucketing.
5. Rowing. intransitive. To hurry the forward swing of the body preparatory to taking the stroke; also transitive, as to bucket the recovery; and causally, to bucket an oarsman or crew.
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society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [verb (intransitive)] > row > row in specific manner or style
sheave1611
to pull away1676
paddle1697
to stretch one's oars1697
to stretch to the oar (or stroke)1697
to row dry1769
to stretch out1836
screw1866
bucket1869
to pull one's weight1878
sky1881
to wash out1884
society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > propel boat by oars, paddle, or pole [verb (transitive)] > row (a boat) > make a stroke > hurry recovery
bucket1869
society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > propel boat by oars, paddle, or pole [verb (transitive)] > row (a boat) > make a stroke > hurry recovery > hurry a crew in recovery
bucket1869
1869 [implied in: Echo 26 Aug. Their recovery forward is flurried and ‘bucketing’. (at bucketing adj.)].
1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly II. ii. 38 He was not so straight in the back as an Oxford stroke; and he bucketed about a good deal, but he got along.
1882 St. James's Gaz. 15 Mar. 6/2 Smith shows a considerable tendency to bucket the recovery.
1884 St. James's Gaz. 25 Jan. 6/2 Style and form are best taught to men if they are not bucketed.
1888 N.E.D. at Bucket Mod. (Oxford Coach)—‘Don't bucket your bodies’! They bucketed over the course: they rowed a bucketing stroke.
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