bucketing
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bucketing (countable and uncountable, plural bucketings)
- The act of moving material using a bucket.
- 1870, Henry Julian Hunter, Inquiry on the state of the Dwellings of Rural Labourers, page 142:
- […] by means of a spade only, without any of the filthy ladlings and bucketings which accompany the clearing a cesspool.
- A heavy pouring down of liquid; a deluge.
- 2017, Don Reis, The Glorious Effervescence of Blubbo, page 66:
- […] it was still obviously still pouring not to[sic] far away and they hoped to complete their journey without being further delayed by another bucketing.
- Synonym of binning (“data pre-processing technique”)
Verb
[edit]bucketing
- present participle and gerund of bucket