pailful


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pail

 (pāl)
n.
1. A watertight cylindrical vessel, open at the top and fitted with a handle; a bucket.
2. The amount that a pail can hold.
[Middle English paile, probably from Old French paele, warming pan, perhaps from Latin patella, small pan; see paella.]
pail′ful′ n.
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pail•ful

(ˈpeɪlˌfʊl)

n., pl. -fuls.
a quantity sufficient to fill a pail.
[1585–95]
usage: See -ful.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.pailful - the quantity contained in a pail
pail
containerful - the quantity that a container will hold
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Translations

pailful

[ˈpeɪlfʊl] N → cubo m, contenido m de un cubo
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pailful

n → Eimer m
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Tod fetched a large heavy pailful of water from the spring, and staggered with it through the kitchen into his bedroom.
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Meanwhile, darling Nutty, will you get some clothes on and go round to the Smiths and ask them to lend us a pailful?'
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Then he gave me a pailful of water to drink; it was cold and very good, and I drank it all; then he gave me some hay and some corn, and thinking he had done right, he went away.
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Each pailful was poured into tall cans that stood in a large spring-waggon which had been brought upon the scene; and when they were milked the cows trailed away.
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Poyser loved, and at this hour on mild days she was usually standing at the house door, with her knitting in her hands, in quiet contemplation, only heightened to a keener interest when the vicious yellow cow, who had once kicked over a pailful of precious milk, was about to undergo the preventive punishment of having her hinder-legs strapped.
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In the warmest weather I usually placed a pailful in my cellar, where it became cool in the night, and remained so during the day; though I also resorted to a spring in the neighborhood.
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