0 a container with an open top and a handle, often used for carrying liquids:
1 a container with an open top and a handle, or the amount such a container will hold:
a bucket of water
We walked along the beach collecting small crabs in a bucket.
I put a bucket underneath to catch the overflow from the water tank.
Water slopped out of the bucket as he carried it up the stairs.
The situation is modified when records are stored in buckets holding several records, but synonyms still occur.
If instead the file is loaded into ten-record buckets, the reduction is from 8.59 per cent down to 1.36 per cent.
Retrieved flounders were placed into large sealed buckets containing cool river water, and transferred back to the laboratory.
