Date: 1200-1300 Language: Anglo-French Origin: buket, from Old English buc 'container for pouring liquid, belly' bucket1 noun buck???et1 S2 [countable]1DT an open container with a handle, used for carrying and holding things, especially liquids [= pail]2 also bucketful the quantity of liquid that a bucket can hold bucket of a bucket of water3TBC a part of a machine shaped like a large bucket and u