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[ noun ] a roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top

Synonyms

bucket

Used in print

(David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)

That absence of an urgent self-indulgence dashed them awake like a pail of water .

(W. H. Gass, "The Pedersen Kid," in The...)

I took the pail and shovel and went_out on the porch .

(S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)

His energy was prodigious ; sometimes he would be up before dawn , clad as a garbage_collector and hurling pails into areaways to exasperate us , and thereafter would hurry to the Bronx_Zoo to grimace at the lions and press cigar_butts against their paws .

2
[ noun ] the quantity contained in a pail

Synonyms

pailful

Related terms

containerful

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