Pail synonyms

pāl

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bucket (related)
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can
A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium.
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container
A large reusable receptacle that can accommodate smaller cartons or cases in a single shipment, designed for efficient handling of cargo.
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ladle (related)
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coffee-pot (related)
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receptacle
(Bot.) The enlarged upper end of the stalk of a flowering plant, on which the flower parts grow
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piggin
(Dialect) A small pail, can or ladle with the handle on the side; a lading-can. In the colonial era, some buckets were made like a small barrel, but with one stave left extra long. This stave would be carved into a handle so the bucket could be used as an oversized scoop. It was used on farms for scattering grain for the chickens, slopping the hogs, as a one-handed milk bucket, and as a grain scoop.
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vessel
(Nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat.
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pailful
An amount that would fill a pail.
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pannikin (related)
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tumbler (related)
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jug
The contents of such a container
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demijohn (related)
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pot
Such a container and its contents:
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Pail Sentence Examples

  • I had to carry the pail up the hill.

  • Twenty years ago, parents arrived at the beach with their kids wearing basic bathing suits, carrying a towel and maybe a pail and shovel to make sandcastles.

  • First I take an axe and pail and go in search of water, if that be not a dream.

  • I had only one pail of water for taking a bath.

  • Whoever camps for a week in summer by the shore of a pond, needs only bury a pail of water a few feet deep in the shade of his camp to be independent of the luxury of ice.

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