Pail Definition

pāl
pails
noun
pails
A more or less cylindrical container, usually with a curved handle, for holding and carrying liquids, etc.; bucket.
Webster's New World
The amount held by a pail.
Webster's New World

A company of wasps.

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Other Word Forms of Pail

Noun

Singular:
pail
Plural:
pails

Origin of Pail

  • Middle English payle 'wooden container', from Old English pæġel 'wine vessel, container for liquids, pail; liquid measure', from Proto-Germanic *pagilaz 'peg, rake' (compare Middle Dutch/Middle Low German pegel 'half pint', Danish pægl 'id.'), diminutive of *pag-. More at peg.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English paile probably from Old French paele warming pan perhaps from Latin patella small pan paella

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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