英:[ ˈpeɪlfʊl]
美:[ ˈpeɪlfʊl]
英:[ ˈpeɪlfʊl]
美:[ ˈpeɪlfʊl]
noun
a usually cylindrical container with a handle : bucket
a milk pail
the quantity that a pail contains
a pail of water
Middle English payle, paille
The first known use of pail was in the 14th century
paisleyadjective
made with colorful curved figures
a paisley shawl
pair1 of 2noun
two things that match or are meant to be used together a pair of gloves
a pair of hands
a thing having two connected matching parts
a pair of scissors
a set of two like or associated things
pair2 of 2verb
to make a pair of or arrange in pairs
paired off the animals
to form a pair or pairs
paired off for the next dance
pailnoun
a round container that is open at the top and has a handle : bucket
the quantity held by a pail
fetch a pail of water
1 We kept on, and bine-by he comes to the door when we wasn't a lookin', and threw a pailful of dirty water on us.
2 Consider a small collapsible pail to help carry water.
3 The current Republican injunctions — cutting Medicare, reducing taxes on the rich, great pailfuls of anti-Obama bile — tend to draw a pained look.
4 After this the lady and her two confederates brewed a stoup or pailful of poison in the barn at Drumnyne, which was to be sent to Robert Munro.
5 For his stupid laughter had quenched me like a pailful of cold water.
6 Barbara got a pailful of water from the spring and started peeling potatoes.
7 They poured five or six pailfuls of water on the cellar floor.
8 They threw the contents by the pailful inside the buildings.
9 There was so little water that Terry had to dig a hole, in order to get a pailful for supper and breakfast.
10 The lads now quickly dipped up pailful after pailful, which they passed to the guide on the bank.
11 Immediately after churning, pour off all the milk and put in half a pailful of water, more or less according to quantity; agitate the whole with the dasher, and pour off the water.
12 From the balconies above were dashed down pailfuls and pitcherfuls of water.
13 An instant more and I was throwing water on the fire from the pailful beside the window ledge.
14 Bud grabbed the first pailful, but instead of offering it to one of the thirsty animals, he deliberately emptied the contents over the head of the boy down in the hole.
15 We had scooped out a hole, and to obtain water, dipped the small tin cans in it till we got a pailful, which we gave then to the oxen.
16 But your sister may exercise her abilities on the pailfuls of strawberries, and raspberries, and sand cherries, and wild plums, that fill the woods in summer.
17 He went to the well and hoisted up a pailful of water.
18 He drunk a pailful on the spot and started back with another,—and he got as far as his shack before he collapsed, all curled up in knots quite picturesque.
19 This was worked well with water until it was the proper consistency and then pailfuls of the mortar were carried to the cabin.
20 Have a pailful of warm water, a pitcher to dip it up with, a piece of mild yellow soap, and a pail of cold water.