bucket
n.— «“In the blink of an eye, I just was caught in the current, and gulping and gulping, didn’t stop, and I went down.” Down in to the “first bucket,” as it is known, which has claimed many of the gorge’s victims.» —“A cautionary tale…with a happy ending” by Tim Johnson Burlington Free Press (Vermont) July 18, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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