| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Centrifugal discharge elevator bucket | Mining | A bucket designed to scoop material from the boot of an elevator and discharge by reason of the combined effect of centrifugal force and gravity. (references) | |
| Elevator bucket | Mining | A vessel generally rectangular in plan and having a back suitably shaped for attachment to a chain or belt and a bottom or front designed to permit discharge of material as the bucket passes over the head wheel of a bucket elevator. (references) | |
| Supercapacity elevator bucket | Mining | A type of continuous elevator bucket used with a pair of chains in which the back of the bucket at the bottom extends backward into space between the up and down runs to provide additional capacity without increase in length or projection. See also: supercapacity bucket elevator. (references) | |
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