bucket (buket)

[Early mod. E. also bocket, "Fine him a pot," roared one, "for talking about kicking the bucket ; he's a nice young man to keep a cove's spirits up, and talk about 'a short life and a merry one.'" Kingsley, Alton Locke, ii. Ventilated bucket, a bucket in a water-wheel having provision for the escape of the air carried into it by the water.