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Pailful

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The amount that fills, or would fill, a pail.

    "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."

  2. 2
    the quantity contained in a pail wordnet

Etymology

From pail + -ful.

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