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pails

  • plural
    of pail.
    pail
    noun
    bucket.

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Removing stagnant water, such as by emptying flowerpot plates, overturning unused pails and breaking up hardened soil, can help break the dengue transmission cycle.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

To complete the Chargers’ blue-collar mentality, black lunch pails were recently dropped at every locker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2024

My invention is an improvement in dinner pails for workmen; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices that will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2024

She suggests using old pails, lanterns, dough bowls, vases and apothecary jars to display the items.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

Pa and Ma went back and forth, carrying the two loaded tubs and the wash-boiler and all the buckets and pails into the house.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder