Definitions for Pail

Pail pail

Spelling: [peyl]
IPA: /peɪl/

Pail is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in Pail (ailp).

Definitions for Pail

noun

  1. bucket.
  2. the amount filling a pail.

Origin of Pail

before 1000; Middle English payle wooden container, continuing Old English pægel wine container, liquid measure (of unknown orig.; compare Middle Dutch, Low German pegel half pint), by associ

Examples for Pail

Homer uses metaphor—‘it was so crowded, it was like bees swarming over a pail of milk.’

Let us try to set aside—preferably forever—the image of the ever-immaculate Romney crouched bare-assed over a pail.

In hot weather I place a piece of ice in flannel on the top of the pail.

Take it out with a wooden ladle, and put it into a small tub or pail.

Then he went forward, and drew the pail from Amelia's unwilling grasp.

This man asked me where I was bound with my pail, and I told him.

But the others could find no fault with it, and Sereno drained the pail.

He waved one hand gayly; the other was carrying a pail of water.

He disappeared only to return with a pail of cold water to temper the first.

Ichabod had been holding a pail of water so that a horse might drink.

Word Value for Pail
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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