Pailful

Synonyms for "pailful" (3 found)

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Irish

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  • lán tobáin noun (amount that would fill a pail)

Russian

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  • по́лное ведро́ noun (amount that would fill a pail)

Sample sentences

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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.

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

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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.

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