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pailful

noun

Etymology

From pail + -ful.

  1. derived from patella — “small pan, shallow dish, platter”
  2. derived from paielle — “frying pan, warming pan; a liquid measure”
  3. derived from *bak-✻ — “peg, club”
  4. inherited from *pagil✻
  5. inherited from pæġel — “wine vessel, container for liquids, pail; a liquid measure”
  6. inherited from payle — “bucket, pail, milking pail”
  7. suffixed as pailful — “pail + ful”

Definitions

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

    • Some say that instead of a bowl of milk on the table, it was a pailful on the kitchen-floor fresh from the cow.
    • 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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA