Pailful

Quick meaning: Pailful is a noun meaning The amount that fills, or would fill, a pail.

Meaning

The amount that fills, or would fill, a pail.

Example Sentences

Some say that instead of a bowl of milk on the table, it was a pailful on the kitchen-floor fresh from the cow.

McGrath's lounge was a vast brownish room, with a beige ceiling of heavy plaster divided into squares […] and finally swabbed with pailfuls of gilt.

Here's neither buſh, nor ſhrub to beare off any weather at all: and another Storme brewing, I heare it ſing ith' winde: yond ſame blacke cloud, yond huge one, lookes like a foule bumbard that would ſhed his licquor: if it ſhould thunder, as it did before, I know not where to hide my head: yond ſame cloud cannot chooſe but fall by paile-fuls.

Word Forms

• pailfuls
• pailsful
• paileful
• pailfull

Synonyms for pailful

Depending on context, synonyms include pail.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pottleful, cupful, pocketful, pewful, waterpotful, porringerful.

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