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pail [peıl] N

pail

pail

水桶 shuǐtǒng

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Once the railways started carrying milk the pail proved less than ideal as it was top-heavy and tended to spill. en.wikipedia.org

Oyster pails that can be safely used in microwave ovens (without the metal handle, which can cause arcing in a microwave) are also available. en.wikipedia.org

The device was dropped in a pail of water where it failed to go off. en.wikipedia.org

In the 19th century they switched to baker's yeast and porcelain containers or enamel pails. en.wikipedia.org

The pail closet was an evolution of the midden closet, an impractical and unsanitary amenity considered a nuisance to public health. en.wikipedia.org

The boy is barefoot, wears a straw hat and is carrying a writing slate and lunch pail. en.wikipedia.org

A related phrase is to hand in one's dinner pail, a bucket that contains a worker's dinner. en.wikipedia.org

Often two pails would be carried on either end of a wooden yoke. en.wikipedia.org

Groups of women with pails, cloths, sponges, baskets, and ladders approach, singing as they go. en.wikipedia.org

Its milk was inexhaustible; but one day an old woman who had filled her pail, wanted to fill her sieve as well. en.wikipedia.org

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