baqueter

A dated, technical verb — a denominal of baquet (tub/bucket) — meaning to bail water out of a container with a scoop or shovel, or, in an older sense, to water something by pouring from a tub. Essentially obsolete in modern French.

• Le marin baquetait l'eau qui s'infiltrait dans la cale. — The sailor was bailing out the water seeping into the hold.
• Autrefois, on baquetait le jardin avec l'eau de pluie récupérée. — In the old days, the garden was watered by pouring from a tub of collected rainwater.
• Ce verbe vieilli n'apparaît plus que dans des textes anciens. — This dated verb now appears only in older texts.

So rare that a learner should default to écoper (to bail out water) for the modern equivalent — baqueter itself is essentially obsolete.

Often confused with écoper.