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pailful

English

Alternative forms

  • paileful, pailfull (both obsolete)

Etymology

From pail +? -ful.

Noun

pailful (plural pailfuls or pailsful)

  1. The amount that fills, or would fill, a pail. [from 16th c.]
    • 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 118:
      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.

Translations

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  • what's painful swallowing
  • what painful bladder
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pailsful

English

Noun

pailsful

  1. plural of pailful

Anagrams

  • pailfuls

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