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Meanings of pail (pails) 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 pails in English
              1
              Floodlights and lunch pails suggested the noise might continue through the night.
              Grave Secrets
              2
              The pails fell to the floor, the water splashing over the tops.
              Lucia Rudini: Somewhere in Italy
              3
              Marguerite came dragging from the well with two slopping pails of water.
              All souls' rising
              4
              A commotion of pails resounded at the top of the stone steps.
              The Old Wives' Tale
              5
              Just beyond the hanging pails a moose-bird hopped out upon the snow.
              The Honor of the Big Snows
              6
              David picked up his milk-pails and completed the work of the day.
              A Williams Anthology / A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Wi...
              7
              The berries were thick, and at last the pails were actually full.
              Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys
              8
              Alfred then returned with the pails, and the conversation took another turn.
              The Settlers in Canada
              9
              So the woman took a couple of pails and went for water.
              Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
              10
              Both boys, their pails, and the water spilled back down the slope.
              The Child Thief
              11
              At Crocker two pails of water were added to the cooling tank.
              Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile / Being a Desultory Narrativ...
              12
              There was a pretty constant string of pails to and from it.
              The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
              13
              He handed me the valise, which I put forward with the pails.
              Girl out back
              14
              His back ached, too, as he carried the pails to the house.
              Hidden Treasure: The Story of a Chore Boy Who Made the Old Farm ...
              15
              His milk-pails struck against the door-post, and sounded as clear as bells.
              Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts: A Book of Stories
              16
              He set down the empty pails and grabbed the remaining full ones.
              Wench: a novel
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              Translations for pails
              Spanish
              cubo
              Pails through the time
              Pails across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common
              United States of America
              Common