bucket
n. countablen. a round container with a handle used for carrying liquids like water or sand. You often use it when cleaning or playing at the beach.
n. an open-topped, cylindrical container with a handle, typically used for transporting liquids or loose materials.
She filled the bucket with soapy water to wash the car.
The gardener carried a heavy bucket of soil across the yard to fill the new flower beds.
In many rural areas without running water, residents must carry several buckets from the communal well each morning to meet their basic household needs.
From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.
Often used in the idiom 'to kick the bucket' as a euphemism for dying.