Meaning

noun a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top

noun the quantity contained in a bucket

verb put into a bucket

originEtymology tree Middle English boket English bucket From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan…

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