pail
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- noun
- /peɪl/
- A night janitor with a pail on wheels and a mop moves past darkened offices.
- pail of water
- garbage pail
- lunch pail
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Watch on YouTubeJack and Jill to fetch a pail of water.
- Jack and Jill to fetch a pail of water.
- So you have to carry this, fill these pails up at the bottom of this hill with strength and the stream and then walk up this freaking.
- We have a lot of pails, Not much, not as much makeup.
- Come on, they all garbage, garbage pails like that.
- They have these these sort of like lunch pails that they call grails eventually.
- There is lunch, pail and hard hat day in and day out, grinding and trying to bring value to the people that you're trying to sell something to.
Examples
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Residents also receive a green, two-gallon kitchen pail for food scraps and paper.
Academic text (1999) -
The six-year-old boy came trudging across the patio, lugging the heavy wooden pail of water.
Fiction book (1994) -
Garbage goes right in my pail, Charles.
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We just made sure that the staff used one pail for food waste and one for trash.
Academic text (1995) -
I'll just put my pail in the workshop.
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And fish guts you gotta wrap and place in the covered pail next to the cleaning station.
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You can leave the pail outside, mrs. Callahan.
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We've got a big garbage pail because we figure that makes sense.
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I rinsed out the sour milk container in a pail of water and poured that into their water trough.
Fiction book (1992) -
The gardener filled the pail with fresh water to hydrate the plants.
Synonyms
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A round open container with a handle for carrying water or other things
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Etymology
Pail comes from an old word for a small tub or basket, so picture a round bucket with high sides and a handle that you carry to fetch water or sand. That's why pail means the bucket itself.