Bucket

Webster's Dictionary

(1): (v. t.) To pour over from a bucket; to drench.

(2): (v. t.) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.

(3): (v. t.) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

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

(5): (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.

(6): (n.) A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.

(7): (n.) The valved piston of a lifting pump.

(8): (v. t.) To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water.

King James Dictionary

BUCK'ET, n.

1. The vessel in which water is drawn out of a well it is nearly in the form of a pail. 2. A vessel or pail used at sea to draw water up at the side of a ship, for washing the decks, &c. 3. A vessel made of leather, nearly in the form of a pail, but narrower and deeper, used to convey water by hand for extinguishing fires.

Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types

 Numbers 24:7 (b) As a gardener waters his garden with buckets of water, so Jacob or Israel would bring blessing to every part of the earth.

 Isaiah 40:15 (b) In this way is described the insignificant character of the great nations of the earth. The earth is compared to a bucket.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Numbers 24:7 Isaiah 40:15

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Isaiah 40:15 Numbers 24:7

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Bucket . See House, 9 .

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

buk´et ( דּלי , delı̄ ): The word is found only in  Isaiah 40:15;  Numbers 24:7 , in the latter passage in a figurative use. The bucket was doubtless a waterskin with two cross-pieces at the top to fit it for use in drawing water, like those now in use in Palestine. The ordinary word for water-skin is a different one ( nō'dh ).