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PAIL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pail" is a kind of...):
vessel (an object used as a container (especially for liquids))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pail"):
cannikin (a wooden bucket)
dinner bucket; dinner pail (a pail in which a workman carries his lunch or dinner)
dredging bucket (a bucket for lifting material from a channel or riverbed)
kibble (an iron bucket used for hoisting in wells or mining)
slop jar; slop pail (a large pail used to receive waste water from a washbasin or chamber pot)
wine bucket; wine cooler (a bucket of ice used to chill a bottle of wine)
Holonyms ("pail" is a part of...):
water wheel; waterwheel (a wheel that rotates by direct action of water; a simple turbine)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quantity contained in a pail
Synonyms:
pail; pailful
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("pail" is a kind of...):
containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb pail
Context examples:
Now the forester had an old cook, who one evening took two pails and began to fetch water, and did not go once only, but many times, out to the spring.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
As they drew near, the cow suddenly gave a kick and kicked over the stool, the pail, and even the milkmaid herself, and all fell on the china ground with a great clatter.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
While this attack lasted, the family lived in constant fear of a conflagration, for the odor of burning wood pervaded the house at all hours, smoke issued from attic and shed with alarming frequency, red-hot pokers lay about promiscuously, and Hannah never went to bed without a pail of water and the dinner bell at her door in case of fire.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He gathered the empty pails and cooking pots together and opened the door.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I ate my breakfast with pleasure and was about to remove a plank to procure myself a little water when I heard a step, and looking through a small chink, I beheld a young creature, with a pail on her head, passing before my hovel.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The maid happened to be just then milking the cow; and hearing someone speak, but seeing nobody, and yet being quite sure it was the same voice that she had heard in the night, she was so frightened that she fell off her stool, and overset the milk-pail.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Dorothy was shocked to see that the cow had broken her leg off, and that the pail was lying in several small pieces, while the poor milkmaid had a nick in her left elbow.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Leaving the pails standing in the trail, he walked up and down, rapidly, to keep from freezing, for the frost bit into the flesh like fire.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
In front of the house was a great stone trough, so she said to the child: “Take the pail, Red-Cap; I made some sausages yesterday, so carry the water in which I boiled them to the trough.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He put five sun-cured salmon into the oven to thaw out for the dogs, and from the water-hole filled his coffee-pot and cooking-pail.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
