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Meanings of pailful in English

The quantity contained in a pail.

Usage of pailful in English
1
Warten came down from the loft with half a pailful of bran.
The Path of Life
2
Add one quarter of this to a half pailful of warm water.
Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
3
Now, how was that, when it held a whole pailful of mush?
The Story Girl
4
But when we delivered the water Jed had only one pailful.
The Jacket (The Star-Rover)
5
I might have got over myself, but could not manage the pailful, also.
The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
6
The placenta weighed 4 pounds, and there was an ordinary pailful of liquor amnii.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
7
I deluged a dry flower-bed, the other night, with pailful after pailful of water.
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1
8
For use, to a pailful of this liquid add a pailful of warm water.
Mushrooms: how to grow them / a practical treatise on mushroom c...
9
I am not altogether to the emerald by a pailful!
The Statesmen Snowbound
10
Gervaise paid him; it was a sou the pailful.
L'Assommoir
11
Surely enough, there was hardly a pailful of water in the bottom of the spring.
Six Little Bunkers at Uncle Fred's
12
Island home again, by the pailful; and she had a thick shawl but no umbrella.
Hard Cash
13
She went to the cupboard to get a jug: she could not carry a pailful.
Sir Gibbie
14
The next year I got from them a pailful.
By Canoe and Dog Train Among The Cree and Salteaux Indians
15
If you put in one other pailful, it'll run over when I get into it.
Gutta-Percha Willie / The Working Genius
16
A window was suddenly opened, and a pailful of slops splashed down upon the doorstep.
New Arabian Nights
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