slop pail
- noun
- Archaic
:
cubeta
- After using the chamber pot, she carefully poured its contents into the slop pail.
Examples
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The sink itself was rigged with an elegant pitcher pump and drained into a somewhat less elegant slop pail below.
Fiction book (1998) -
I must have seen the other woman within you– the one that came here, scrubbed floors and emptied slop pails... and fought nausea and weariness and fear– the real woman.
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The old slop pail was filled with dirty water from the washbasin after a long day's work.
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In the kitchen, all waste water from washing dishes was collected in a large slop pail.
Synonyms
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9.9
A large container with a lid for holding used wash water
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Morphology
The compound meaning ('a pail for slop') is directly and transparently derived from the constituents 'slop' (dirty household liquid) and 'pail' (a handled container). This straightforward noun+noun composition follows common compounding patterns and would be clear to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Slop pail comes from a simple picture: slop was the dirty water or waste from a washbasin or chamber pot, and a pail was a bucket kept by the bed to hold that water. That's why slop pail means 'a container for collecting waste water'.