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noun

bucket.

the amount filling a pail.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English payle wooden container, continuing Old English pægel wine container, liquid measure (of unknown orig.; compare Middle Dutch, Low German pegel half pint), by association with Old French paielle pan < Latin patella; see patella

Can be confused: pale, pail, pall, pallor (see synonym note at pale¹).

Regional variation note
1. See bucket.

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Example Sentences

Near a customer service desk, a broken pipe dripped water from the ceiling into a garbage pail.

Most respondants should put their arm into a pail of water and take it out.

The treasures could be waiting in a white five-gallon pail or a small clear plastic container.

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Near a customer service desk, a broken pipe dripped water from the ceiling into a garbage pail.

Most respondants should put their arm into a pail of water and take it out.

The treasures could be waiting in a white five-gallon pail or a small clear plastic container.

And someone, after all, might wonder about that peculiarly placed empty pail.

He needs to put his intellectural head in a larger pail.

He shuffled down a laboratory hallway, side-stepping a swivel-chair and a small garbage pail.

Wash your car with a pail of water or turn the hose off between rinses.

The first step was putting a pail of cream inside a bucket of ice.

For big jobs, increase the amounts of all three ingredients and mix in a pail.

Then he picks up his pail and proceeds to the field to pick peas.

Neighbours report that the milkman would leave his pail at the gate each morning without.

For fancier tastes, though, the stylish lunch pail allows heating in-situ and also stores your cutlery ready for use.

Gunn said as he stood next to a garbage pail full of deformed crullers.

The cage itself is on display in a shadowy interior gallery, complete with bed, sink and pail.

For a long time, card holders collected carbons to keep the data out of an accessible trash pail.

He bathes in a pail of water hauled from a nearby fire hydrant and heated over a gas burner.

The moon, wearing a sand pail as a hat, dances around a large.

Which came as quite a shock, as if a virtual pail of ice water had been thrown at me.

Instantly, a guy with a mop and pail appears, zeros in on the puddle behind a shamefaced puppy and takes care of the problem.

Don't forget to bring an air cushion and executive lunch pail for long-haul economy flights.

Some saw it as a creative way to look beyond the diaper pail.

We see a figure trudging home, covered with coal dust and holding a lunch pail.

They hide beneath the table, behind the curtains, in the garbage pail.

Never stand or sit on the top shelf or the folding pail shelf.

The incarcerated bluesman let down a pail for contributions.

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World English Dictionary

pail (peɪl)

—n
1.	a bucket, esp one made of wood or metal
2.	Also called: pailful the quantity that fills a pail

[Old English pægel; compare Catalan paella frying pan, paella]

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Word Origin & History

pail

1392, from O.Fr. paielle "warming pan, liquid measure, bath," possibly from L. patella "small pan, dish," dim. of patina "broad shallow pan." O.E. had pægel "wine vessel," but etymology does not support a connection. This word is possibly from M.L. pagella "a measure," from L. pagella "column,"

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dim. of pagina (see page (1)).

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"A cow does not know how much milk it has until the milkman starts working on it. Then it looks round in surprise and sees the pail full to the brim. In the same way a writer has no idea how much he has to say till his pen draws it out of him. Thoughts will then appear on the paper that he is amazed to find that he possessed. "How brilliant!" he says to himself. "I had no idea I was so intelligent." But the reader may not be so im pressed."

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