pail
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- noun
- /peɪl/
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balde
- The milk is in the pails, and the foam is rising up over the rims.
- milk pail
- lunch pail
- pail of water
You got that and pails of pain, pails of pain.
- You got that and pails of pain, pails of pain.
- So if you just want to hold the verse Jack and Jill went up the hill to, that's a pail of water in your mind for a moment.
Examples
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I'll get a pail of water.
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Go fetch us another pail of water.
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A full pail of water is out of the question.
Fiction book (1995) -
How many raindrops are in the pail in my garden?
Blog text (24) -
My brother Toby helped her pump water into four tin pails and set them in front of us.
Fiction book (1998) -
"Mama, I smell smoke," she shouted as she burst into the house, milk sloshing from the pail.
Fiction book (1998) -
"Fires somewhere close!" cried Margaret as she hurried up the hill to the house, lugging a pail of milk.
Fiction book (1998) -
I filled the pail with water to water the garden.
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She carried a pail of sand to build a castle on the beach.
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The workers needed a pail to collect the fallen apples.
Synonyms
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The amount that a round open container with a handle can hold
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An amount that fills a bucket
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An amount that fills a pail
Compounds
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Etymology
Pail can also mean the 'amount' the bucket holds — like when someone brings 'a pail' of water they mean one full bucket. So pail is used both for the container and for the quantity it contains.