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noun
A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: bucket
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A closed (covered) cylindrical shipping container.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: bucket
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: vessel
Narrower terms: cannikin, dinner pail, dinner bucket, dredging bucket, kibble, slop pail, slop jar, wine bucket, wine cooler
noun
the quantity contained in a pail
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: pailful
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: containerful
History
From Middle English payle (“bucket, pail, milking pail”), of uncertain origin. Likely from Old English pæġel (“wine vessel, container for liquids, pail; a liquid measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *pagil, from Proto-Indo-European *bak- (“peg, club”), equivalent to peg + -le. Compare West Frisian pegel (“liquid measure, fourth of a litre, half-pint”), German Pegel (“level of liquid, level”), Middle Dutch pegel (“half-pint”), Danish pægl (“half-pint”). Doublet of peil. Alternatively from Old French paielle (“frying pan, warming pan; a liquid measure”), from Latin patella (“small pan, shallow dish, platter”), diminutive of patina (“broad shallow pan, stewpan”). Perhaps a conflation of both.
