slop pail
noun
a pail for conveying slop in feeding livestock, especially pigs.
a pail into which household slop is collected for disposal.
Origin of slop pail
1First recorded in 1860–65
- Also called slop bucket.
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How to use slop pail in a sentence
First, the aforesaid emptying of the critical slop-pail on Coleridge.
Life of John Keats | Sidney ColvinAnd now that slop-pail in which the cigarette ends were swimming looked incredibly disgusting.
The Darling and Other Stories | Anton ChekhovHe used to forget to empty the chief's slop-pail, and the water would overflow the cabin.
Shandygaff | Christopher MorleyHanging awkwardly from a nail in the wall, a slop pail of enamelled iron.
The Witch Doctor and other Rhodesian Studies | Frank WorthingtonThis is convenient, as the whole of the ground beneath the house can thus be used as a slop-pail, waste-basket, and rubbish heap.
In Court and Kampong | Hugh Clifford
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