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pail

/peyl/US // peɪl //UK // (peɪl) //

桶,水桶,桶装,木桶

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : bucket.
    • : the amount filling a pail.

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Examples

  • He went up to a park, in Inwood, northern Manhattan, and the garbage pails are all full and there’s papers flying around and there are these park employees just sitting there.

  • My nostrils have smelt the horrors of the (cloth) diaper pail.

  • Homer uses metaphor—‘it was so crowded, it was like bees swarming over a pail of milk.’

  • Let us try to set aside—preferably forever—the image of the ever-immaculate Romney crouched bare-assed over a pail.

  • But it was hard to be the party of Wall Street and the party of the lunch-pail at the same time.

  • At the farm-gate they met Dorothy, fresh and blooming as a rose, with a pail in each hand foaming to the brim with milk.

  • She kicked at Jehosophat and over went the pail of milk which his father had almost full.

  • Sometimes a milk-pail is represented near a lamb, or hanging on a crook by its side, or even resting on its back.

  • He listened carefully before, standing outside in the cold, he poured over his head and shoulders a pail of cold water.

  • The root thus broken up is rubbed about in a great pail, with water slowly added.