n. 25B6; noun
a bucket of cold water : PAIL, scuttle, can, tub.
(informal) everyone wept buckets : FLOODS, gallons, oceans.
25B6; verb (Brit. informal)
it was bucketing down : RAIN HEAVILY, rain cats and dogs, rain hard, pour, pelt, lash, teem; Brit. tip.
the car came bucketing out of a side road. : See speed verb sense 1.