bucketing

bucketing (countable and uncountable, plural bucketings)

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Synonym of binning (“data pre-processing technique”)

bucketing

1. present participle and gerund of bucket

• gin bucket