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pail

[ peyl ]

noun

  1. the amount filling a pail.


pail

/ peɪl /

noun

  1. a bucket, esp one made of wood or metal
  2. Also calledpailful the quantity that fills a pail
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pail1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English payle “wooden container,” continuing Old English pægel “wine container, liquid measure” (of unknown origin; compare Middle Dutch, Low German pegel “half pint”), by association with Old French paielle “pan,” from Latin patella; patella
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pail1

Old English pægel; compare Catalan paella frying pan, paella
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Example Sentences

He went up to a park, in Inwood, northern Manhattan, and the garbage pails are all full and there’s papers flying around and there are these park employees just sitting there.

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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