slop pail

a pail for conveying slop in feeding livestock, especially pigs.

a pail into which household slop is collected for disposal.

QUIZZES

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Question 1 of 7

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Also called slop bucket.

First recorded in 1860–65

The table in overturning overset the slop-pail, and the slops went on the floor too.
The American Joe Miller|Various
Put grease into the grease-pot, and whatever else may be on the plates, into the slop-pail.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy|Catherine Esther Beecher
Our nurse had told her my dislike to this form of nourishment, adding that every morning I emptied the panade into the slop-pail.
My Double Life|Sarah Bernhardt
Under the sink should be kept a slop-pail; and, on a shelf by it, a soap-dish and two water-pails.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy|Catherine Esther Beecher

Water your rose with a slop-pail when it's in bud, and you'll be asked the name of it when it's in flower.
Mary's Meadow|Juliana Horatia Ewing