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pail

(pāl)

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.

pail

(peɪl)

1. a bucket, esp one made of wood or metal

2. Also called: pailful the quantity that fills a pail

[Old English pægel; compare Catalan paella frying pan, paella]

pail

(peɪl)

n.

1. a container, usu. cylindrical, with a handle; bucket.

2. the amount filling a pail.

[before 1000; Middle English payle wooden container, Old English pægel wine container, liquid measure (compare Middle Dutch, Low German pegel half pint)]

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Noun	1.	pail - a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top bucket 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 vessel - an object used as a container (especially for liquids) water wheel, waterwheel - a wheel that rotates by direct action of water; a simple turbine wine bucket, wine cooler - a bucket of ice used to chill a bottle of wine
	2.	pail - the quantity contained in a pail pailful containerful - the quantity that a container will hold