a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top
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the quantity contained in a pail
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Pail \Pail\ (p[=a]l), n. [OE. paile, AS. p[ae]gel a wine vessel, a pail, akin to D. & G. pegel a watermark, a gauge rod, a measure of wine, Dan. p[ae]gel half a pint.] A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover. --Shak.
"He heated the burner on the stove and put their hands on it," said Police Chief Daniel Kochman. "The mother stood by with a cold pail of water and dipped their hands in it.
Witnesses who insisted on anonymity said a young man was slightly injured by a pail thrown from the roof of the building.
"It's been like a pail of cold water," says Jose Angel Marks Cisneros, president.
"When the X-ray was turned upside down, there indeed was Mrs. Potato Eater, or Miss Potato Eater, seated at the pail peeling her spuds," he said.
The group members take sponge baths using buckets filled with water taken from a hydrant outside. A plastic pail is their toilet; it is emptied each morning into a sewer pipe out on the street.
"It's amazing," said Henderson. "Someone brought a `Brady Bunch' lunch pail for me to sign.
Masco Industries said it is spinning off operations that make drum and pail closures, high-pressure gas cylinders, specialty fasteners and precision tools.