English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Bucket (n.)

A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.

Bucket (n.)

A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.

Bucket (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.

Bucket shop

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

Buckety (n.)

Paste used by weavers to dress their webs.

Buckeye (n.)

A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Aesculus) as the horse chestnut.

Buckeye (n.)

A cant name for a native in Ohio.

Buckhound (n.)

A hound for hunting deer.

Buckie (n.)

A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum.

Bucking (n.)

The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used.

Bucking (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Buck

Bucking (n.)

The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.

Bucking (n.)

A washing.

Buckish (a.)

Dandified; foppish.

Buckle (n.)

A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.

Buckle (v. i.)

To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.

Buckle (v. i.)

To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.

Buckle (v. i.)

To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.

Buckle (v. i.)

To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.

Buckle (n.)

To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.