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How to pronounce pail in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms pailful
Type of containerful
Type Words
Synonyms bucket
Type of vessel
Has types dinner bucket, dinner pail, dredging bucket, kibble, slop jar, slop pail, wine cooler, wine bucket, cannikin

Examples of pail

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Every pail I saw was filled to the brim with some change but mainly greenbacks.
From the timesunion.com
The same works for trash cans, baby's diaper pail, the vacuum cleaner and more.
From the stltoday.com
Then there's Ryan Gomes, a hard hat and lunch pail kind of worker on the block.
From the denverpost.com
He pulled a pistol from his lunch pail and shot operations director Louis Felder.
From the orlandosentinel.com
If temperatures are above freezing, keep the base of the trunk in a pail of water.
From the tennessean.com
To describe him as carrying a lunch pail doesn't begin to scratch the surface.
From the chron.com
He's a lunch-pail, high-effort guy who should make a solid transition to the pros.
From the sacbee.com
But to inflict this sort of gibberish on your own children is beyond the pail.
From the guardian.co.uk
Following that, they drowned the girl by holding down her head in a pail of water.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • Bucket: a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top
  • The quantity contained in a pail
  • A bucket, also called a pail, is a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone, with an open top and a flat bottom, usually attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail. A bucket is distinguished from other containers by being unlidded. ...
  • Iliamna Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (5.5 km) west of the central business district of Iliamna, in the Lake and Peninsula Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.
  • A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket (sometimes with a cover); A company of wasps
  • To dream of full pails of milk, is a sign of fair prospects and pleasant associations. An empty pail is a sign of famine, or bad crops. For a young woman to be carrying a pail, denotes household employment.
  • A flaring or tapered body container quipped with a bail or handle. A variety of top closures are used.
  • Pail is sometimes used in older cemetery reports in reference to vessels made entirely of metal but the term is also used to describe stave-built examples.