The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bucket \Buck"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bucketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bucketing.]
To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water.
To pour over from a bucket; to drench.
To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
(Rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of bucket English)
Usage examples of "bucketing".
In this lame cage they were lowered into the excavation, a journey that took them through storage and maintenance areas, restricted sectors, down along porous shale and rock, past timber underpinnings and assemblies of masonry and steel that formed support for subtunnels and emergency access routes, the elevator suddenly dropping into open air, free of its shaft, cabling into the darkness of the inverted cycloid, air currents, oscillation, a bucketing descent through drainage showers and rubble-fall, the cage shaking so badly that Billy sought to convince himself there was a pattern to the vibrations and changes of speed, a hidden consistency, all gaps fillable, the organized drift of serial things passing to continuum.
I squeezed the trigger of my camera, taking a wild sweeping shot as I jumped to my feet and followed him, the others piling in beside me as he started the engine, and we went bucketing down the bank and roared off up the lugga towards the dense pall of smoke still billowing over the bush ahead.
Likely they would have succeeded but the Aitch Bee, also impatient to reach port, came bucketing down the searoute.
Tabarast had managed an even more impressive Faerun-kissing total, he reflected with a smirk, watching the old wizard bucketing down a steep descent with both legs sticking out like wobbling wings on either side of his patient mount.
Margaret changed gears noisily and sent the truck bucketing down the rutted lane.
The Americans were bucketing down the sky from the south, intent on blowing them all out of the air.
Soon the car was bucketing down a broad boulevard q POW toward the center of the city, a chip afloat in a stream of little sedans and huge trucks, all emitting a noxious miasma that stung the eyes and throat.
It went bucketing down the slope, reaching such a velocity near the bottom that Mr.
South of Jena, in the suburb of Stadtroda, when he was driving between the huge and hideous apartment blocks of the housing estate, a Trabant came bucketing out of a side road.
They were flying at fifteen thousand feet when, just after crossing Cuba, they ran into one of those violent tropical storms that suddenly turn aircraft from comfortable drawing-rooms into bucketing death-traps.