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pail
[ peyl ]
pail
/ peɪl /
noun
- a bucket, esp one made of wood or metal
- Also calledpailful the quantity that fills a pail
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pail1
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Example Sentences
My nostrils have smelt the horrors of the (cloth) diaper pail.
Homer uses metaphor—‘it was so crowded, it was like bees swarming over a pail of milk.’
Let us try to set aside—preferably forever—the image of the ever-immaculate Romney crouched bare-assed over a pail.
But it was hard to be the party of Wall Street and the party of the lunch-pail at the same time.
At the farm-gate they met Dorothy, fresh and blooming as a rose, with a pail in each hand foaming to the brim with milk.
She kicked at Jehosophat and over went the pail of milk which his father had almost full.
Sometimes a milk-pail is represented near a lamb, or hanging on a crook by its side, or even resting on its back.
He listened carefully before, standing outside in the cold, he poured over his head and shoulders a pail of cold water.
The root thus broken up is rubbed about in a great pail, with water slowly added.
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