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Bucketed

Bucket \Buck"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bucketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bucketing.]

  1. To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water.

  2. To pour over from a bucket; to drench.

  3. To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.

  4. (Rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

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bucketed

vb. (en-past of: bucket)

Usage examples of "bucketed".

Then the band played Little White Bull, and The Bull, very smug after all the attention, bucketed round the ring twice, deliberately keeping within the circle of the spotlight.

Offutt The horse bucketed out of the enclosure and onto a trail there.

The corvette bucketed violently, seams creaking and groaning as her spaceframe twisted in the backwash of space falling back in on itself.

The little ship bounced and bucketed through the concussions as Brim desperately zigzagged in all directions.

To stand thus chagrined and discomfitted, on the very point of being bucketed down a dark shaft to the mountain's bowel—to stand thus on the brink of our peril and still be denied by Costard the information we sought, was too infuriating.

Even after we'd set to loading the wagon with the bales Barnar had bucketed up from the mine, we could not stop interrupting ourselves to stop and gaze about us, wave our arms and exclaim at the glory of the morning.

Lefty Wister bucketed along just behind, Diril bringing up the rear with the two spare horses.

When Bob's finished with him, the poor devil's got ten hours or more being bucketed about on a landing craft and then a flight to the mainland.

As Bill's ancient car bucketed along the narrow lane out of Foss Creek, Slim was unusually silent.