pail
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++pail /peɪl/ noun [countable] especially American English 
1 DHDLOa metal or wooden container with a handle, used for carrying liquids 桶 SYN bucket a milk pail 牛奶桶pail of a pail of water 一桶水2. (also pailful /-fʊl/)DH the amount of liquid a pail will hold 一桶之量
1 DHDLOa metal or wooden container with a handle, used for carrying liquids 桶 SYN bucket a milk pail 牛奶桶pail of a pail of water 一桶水2. (also pailful /-fʊl/)DH the amount of liquid a pail will hold 一桶之量Examples from the Corpus
pail• a pailful of water• A pail lifted, still and brimming - mirror To tempt a first star to a tremor.• Life clangs and swings and scrapes with all these buckets and pails.• At that moment, there came a nearby clatter of mops and pails.• It was a community that drank out of the beer pail and ate out of the lunch bucket.• a diaper pail• Sheet steel is used in applications ranging from pails to car hoods.• There were monthly pails of bloody white rags soaking.• They filled their pail and container, and started the return journey.Origin pail (1300-1400) Probably from Old English pægel, a unit of measurement for liquidspail nounChinese
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pail
pail /peɪl/
noun [countable] especially American English
1. a metal or wooden container with a handle, used for carrying liquids
SYN bucket:
a milk pail
pail of
a pail of water
2. (also pailful /-fʊl/) the amount of liquid a pail will hold
pail /peɪl/
noun [countable] especially American English Date: 1300-1400
Origin: Probably from Old English pægel, a unit of measurement for liquids
Origin: Probably from Old English pægel, a unit of measurement for liquids
1. a metal or wooden container with a handle, used for carrying liquids
SYN bucket:
pail of
2. (also pailful /-fʊl/) the amount of liquid a pail will hold
