bucket vs hare

bucket

verb
  • To travel very quickly. 

  • To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body. 

  • To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly. 

  • To rain heavily. 

  • To place inside a bucket. 

  • To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets. 

  • To criticize vehemently; to denigrate. 

  • To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items. 

noun
  • A bucket bag. 

  • A helmet. 

  • Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container). 

  • A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items. 

  • A great deal of anything. 

  • A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam. 

  • A large amount of liquid. 

  • The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted. 

  • an insult term used in Toronto to refer to someone who habitually uses crack cocaine. 

  • An old vehicle that is not in good working order. 

  • A field goal. 

  • The amount held in this container. 

  • A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key. 

  • The basket. 

  • The pitcher in certain orchids. 

  • A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement. 

hare

verb
  • To move swiftly. 

noun
  • The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed. 

  • Any of several plant-eating animals of the family Leporidae, especially of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears. 

adj
  • Grey, hoary; grey-haired, venerable (of people). 

  • Cold, frosty (of weather). 

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