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Kick the Bucket (To)

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A bucket is a pulley, and in Norfolk a beam. When pigs are killed, they are hung by their hind-legs on a bucket or beam, with their heads downwards, and oxen are hauled up by a pulley. To kick the bucket is to be hung on the balk or bucket by the heels.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Keys (The House of)
Keyne (St.)
Khedive dEgypte
Khorassan [Region of the Sun]
Ki
Kiak-Kiak (god of gods)
Kick (A)
Kick Over the Traces (To)
Kick the Beam (To)
Kick the Bucket (To)
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Kidderminster Poetry
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