Preposition: of

• milk: The full and heavy pails of milk were more easily transported with the extra support from the yoke.

• water: Use full strength in spray bottle or add two cups to a pail of warm water.

Converse of object

• fetch: Then, if you asked Jack to fetch a pail of water, he could figure out how to do it.

• carry: Men who could be hired to carry pails of water up to the tenement flats were called caddies.

• take: Uttering a few sounds with an air of melancholy, he took the pail from her head and bore it to the cottage himself.

• have: I had only one pail of water for taking a bath.

• fill: Twice a week we'd go up to the nearest farm to fill the milk pail or buy another sack of potatoes.

• milk: The point of the cartoon is the lawyer under the cow with his milking pail!

Adjective modifier

• empty: Dirty water or empty pails were commonly punished by pinching or lameness.

• old: Last spring a friend of ours discovered one inside an old pail, which was lying upside down in a corner of his garden.

• full: I usually had to make two trips, as I couldn't manage to carry a full pail.

• wooden: Beside these were long rows of wooden pails and dairy utensils, with shining ranks of tinware and pewter platters and pots.

• small: There was a bucket full of water, and a small pail.

Noun used with modifier

• garbage: I have some garbage pail kids cards still somewhere, I'm sure.

• dinner: To go west means to hop the twig, pop one's clog, hand in one's dinner pail, and so on.

• milk: Twice a week we'd go up to the nearest farm to fill the milk pail or buy another sack of potatoes.

• slop: I even managed to empty the slop pail in the food tunnel.

• lunch: You would not ask for a kiss good-bye, or an extra napkin in your lunch pail.

• water: The right-hand carving appears to show someone carrying what look like water pails.