bucket brigades

Noun

bucket brigade (plural bucket brigades)

1. The long line of people, in a primitive firefighting technique, who pass buckets of water hand-to-hand from the nearest water source to the site of a fire, in an attempt to douse it.

   Synonyms:

   human chain

2. (broadly, figuratively) Any process in which something is passed along a chain.
3. A discrete-time analogue delay line that moves a signal along a line of capacitors, one step at each clock cycle.