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Meanings of pail in English

Portuguese
caçamba
Catalan
galleda
Spanish
cubo
Wikidata

A roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top.

caçamba

The quantity contained in a pail.

Usage of pail in English
1
The boat leaks; there is no pail to bail out the water.
The new yorker
2
He rode to work on his bike and carried a lunch pail.
Riding rockets
3
She lifted the pail and pushed through the door of the cabin.
The Promise / A Tale of the Great Northwest
4
Judith rose and set the brimming milk pail in a feed box.
Judith of the Godless Valley
5
By the time he had half emptied the pail the smoke ceased.
Opening a Chestnut Burr
6
Two streams of milk came clattering in turns into the little pail.
The Path of Life
7
With a full pail in each hand we made the return trip.
The Jacket (The Star-Rover)
8
The one who was reading had a dinner pail in his hand.
Lifted Masks; stories
9
There was bread and a small pail of water inside my cell.
Bloodfever
10
Barefoot started so that the cow winced and almost over-turned the milk-pail.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
11
The calf was now standing still, drinking the milk from the pail.
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus
12
One day he bled me; John held a pail for the blood.
Black Beauty
13
The last few pints I dipped into the pail with a cup.
The Rising of the Court
14
They gave no heed to the boy with the pail of water.
The Circus Boys Across the Continent; Or, Winning New Laurels on...
15
One of the crew grabbed up the pail to run for water.
The Circus Boys on the Plains; Or, The Young Advance Agents Ahea...
16
The jets of milk shot into the pail with an angry rapidity.
A Williams Anthology / A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Wi...
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Translations for pail
Spanish
cubo
Pail through the time
Pail across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common