Noun, : a pailful of water. From Dictionary.com.
"And look what she calls a pailful of water!" added the mother, with a second blow. From Wordnik.com. [Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales] Reference
But when we delivered the water Jed had only one pailful. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 13] Reference
The words hit him like a pailful of cold water in the face. From Wordnik.com. [The White Gryphon]
For use, to a pailful of this liquid add a pailful of warm water. From Wordnik.com. [Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure] Reference
Receive a pailful of the first running, and throw it again upon the malt. From Wordnik.com. [The Practical Distiller An Introduction To Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits, &c. &c. of Better Quality, and in Larger Quantities, than Produced by the Present Mode of Distilling, from the Produce of the United States] Reference
Surely enough, there was hardly a pailful of water in the bottom of the spring. From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Uncle Fred's] Reference
We used to sneak over there and steal nuts by the pailful when I was in school. From Wordnik.com. [The Wayward Muse] Reference
If you keep the blood cool, a pailful should last over a day or two, no trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon's Kin]
Do you go and get a pailful of ice, and we'll have plenty for the girls to drink. From Wordnik.com. [The Camp Fire Girls on the March Bessie King's Test of Friendship] Reference
I dug a pailful of potatoes for 3 cents, and mended a hole in grandpa's sock for one cent. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 05, May, 1889] Reference
Sometimes the day is warm, and you can bring a pailful of cool water for some tired traveler. From Wordnik.com. [Friends and Helpers] Reference
Number one nag with a pailful of water, swigging away like a Glasgow baillie at a bowl of punch. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
Bill and I went over to Lumberville in search of a couple of cider barrels and a pailful of charcoal. From Wordnik.com. [The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island] Reference
She brought a pailful of wine and placed it on the table near me, and left a glass standing beside it. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
Even as they watched the water got lower and lower, until there was hardly a pailful left in the rock basin. From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Uncle Fred's] Reference
"Yes, the woodwork is on fire, but a little water will douse that," cried Frank, as he caught up another pailful. From Wordnik.com. [Frank and Andy Afloat The Cave on the Island] Reference
Do not fully open the faucet at first, because the first pailful is generally not quite clear, and should run slowly. From Wordnik.com. [The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines] Reference
There's five goes from here together, an 'a pailful for each -- bread an' coffee mostly, an 'a bit o' bacon for some. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference
‘So was mine till my father smashed a pailful of cranberries, and rubbed my eyes with them,’ replied the wolverine. From Wordnik.com. [The Brown Fairy Book] Reference
Any inclination to crawl down the slope when exposed to the sun was readily stopped by throwing on a pailful of cold water. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Put the clothes in soak the night before you wash, and to every pailful of water in which you boil them add a pound of soap. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
As to the quantity of eggs necessary, one pint to a pailful of syrup is amply sufficient, and half as much will do very well. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
(Yamka was an unmarried, disreputable Cossack woman who kept an illicit pot-house.) ‘I heard say they had drunk half a pailful.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Cossacks] Reference
Take it from the fire, stir in cold water till it grows thin, then put to each pailful of soap a pint of blown salt -- stir it in well. From Wordnik.com. [The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner] Reference
For calicoes that fade, put a teaspoonful of sugar of lead into a pailful of water and soak the garment fifteen minutes before washing. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
To purify greasy sinks and pipes, pour down a pailful of boiling water in which three or four pounds of washing soda have been dissolved. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
The simplest way is to take a pailful of lye, to which put a piece of copperas half as big as a hen's egg; boil in a copper or tin kettle. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
He stood a pailful, and we drank it, but the blood went on flowing. From Wordnik.com. [The Cossacks] Reference
"I have just spilled a pailful of milk on the ground," sobbed Kate. From Wordnik.com. [Proud and Lazy A Story for Little Folks] Reference
I might have got over myself, but could not manage the pailful, also. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson] Reference
I deluged a dry flower-bed, the other night, with pailful after pailful of water. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
The placenta weighed 4 pounds, and there was an ordinary pailful of liquor amnii. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
And this is a mere pailful added to an ocean of previous and more important testimony. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference
He was begrimed and blackened from head to foot, and carried a pailful of coals and wood. From Wordnik.com. [Donal Grant, by George MacDonald] Reference
We passed by canals seeming so full that a pailful of water more would overflow the place. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
Then he flew off into the village, and brought back a little pailful of water for the fox. From Wordnik.com. [More Russian Picture Tales] Reference
Now and then he would send a pailful to a publisher, and of course it would always come back. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Men and Ghosts] Reference
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