Read full poem →With a bamboo on my shoulder
And a pail slung from a string?
Dictionary Entry
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).
In a Sentence
“The milkmaid carried a pail of milk in each hand.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. pailpail garbagepail tinpail dinnerpail lunchpail milk
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Poetry examples for “pail”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →In the mole-hills and the bushes, and the clear brook fringed with rushes
To fill the evening pail, bonny Mary O!
Read full poem →In the old homestead rests the cottage cow;
The dogs sit on their haunches near the pail,
The least one to the stranger growls "bow wow,"
Read full poem →The well was dry beside the door,
And so we went with pail and can
Across the fields behind the house
Read full poem →To each and all one after another I drawn near, not one do I miss,
An attendant follows holding a tray, he carries a refuse pail,
Soon to be fill'd with clotted rags and blood, emptied, and fill'd
Read full poem →And Tom bears logs into the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail,
When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul,
Read full poem →And Tom bears logs into the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail,
When Blood is nipped and ways be foul,