▪ I. bucketing, vbl. n.
(ˈbʌkɪtɪŋ)
1. The using of a bucket; the pouring of bucketfuls of water over a person.
| 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas (1608) 10 Danaides sivelike Tub..never full for all their bucketing. 1648 Herrick Hesper. I. 28 Water, Water..come all to buckittings. 1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. 85 Bucketting..taking up the Water in Buckets, and pouring it leisurely on the Parts affected. 1863 Kingsley Water-bab. iv. 172 They..had recourse to..Bleedings, Bucketings with cold water. |
2. a. Heavy, exhausting riding. b. = pumping; breathless exhaustion by violent exercise. c. Hurried and jerky rowing.
| 1856 G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Coventry xi, I had rather give Brilliant a good ‘bucketting’..over an even heath or a line of grass. 1876 Besant & Rice Gold. Butterfly xv. 133 Jack's bucketing up the river. 1883 M. E. Braddon Gold. Calf xxi. 238 The laming of a fine horse by injudicious bucketting up hill and down hill. 1883 Standard 22 Feb. 3/7 Dry Remark..had a fearful bucketting before the spin ended. |
▪ II. ˈbucketing, ppl. a.
[f. bucket v. + -ing2.]
That buckets; cf. bucket v. 5.
| 1869 Echo 26 Aug., Their recovery forward is flurried and ‘bucketing’. 1882 St. James's Gaz. 7 Mar., Smith has a hanging, bucketing recovery. |