Home › Words › W › waterbucketwaterbucketwaterbucket means A bucket used to hold water.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, waterbucket ranks #35,660 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyCompound of water + bucket.nounA bucket used to hold water.e.g.“Nearly every day, Mamo made treats for them. Tea cakes, gingerbread, muffins, and the like, and on hot summer days, a big waterbucket full of lemonade.” — 2015, Wendell Pierce, Rod Dreher, The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, a Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 33:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).