pail

Word family nounpailpailful

Related topics: Household

pail /peɪl/ noun [countableC] especially American EnglishAmE → pale

1 DHDLOa metal or wooden container with a handle, used for carrying liquids 桶 SYN bucket

a milk pail

牛奶桶

pail of

a pail of water

一桶水

2. (also pailful /-fʊl/)DH the amount of liquid a pail will hold 一桶之量

Examples from the Corpus

pail• a pailful of water• A pail lifted, still and brimming - mirror To tempt a first star to a tremor.• Life clangs and swings and scrapes with all these buckets and pails.• At that moment, there came a nearby clatter of mops and pails.• It was a community that drank out of the beer pail and ate out of the lunch bucket.• a diaper pail• Sheet steel is used in applications ranging from pails to car hoods.• There were monthly pails of bloody white rags soaking.• They filled their pail and container, and started the return journey.

Origin pail

(1300-1400) Probably from Old English pægel, a unit of measurement for liquids

词汇	pail
释义	pail Word family nounpailpailful Related topics: Household pail /peɪl/ noun [countableC] especially American EnglishAmE → pale 1 DHDLOa metal or wooden container with a handle, used for carrying liquids 桶 SYN bucket a milk pail 牛奶桶 pail of a pail of water 一桶水 2. (also pailful /-fʊl/)DH the amount of liquid a pail will hold 一桶之量 Examples from the Corpus pail• a pailful of water• A pail lifted, still and brimming - mirror To tempt a first star to a tremor.• Life clangs and swings and scrapes with all these buckets and pails.• At that moment, there came a nearby clatter of mops and pails.• It was a community that drank out of the beer pail and ate out of the lunch bucket.• a diaper pail• Sheet steel is used in applications ranging from pails to car hoods.• There were monthly pails of bloody white rags soaking.• They filled their pail and container, and started the return journey. Origin pail (1300-1400) Probably from Old English pægel, a unit of measurement for liquids
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