0 a bucket :
1 a container, usually with a curved handle attached to opposite sides of the top edge:
The significance of collecting milk is further emphasised by the fact that the milk pail must be wooden and not made of metal or pottery.
Separation of work and home brought the need for lunch pails and downtown restaurants.
Railway workers and sometimes soldiers sold pails of water or hats filled with water for exorbitant prices.
The fact that the same mathematics will explain the concave surface of water in a pail whether the pail or the universe is rotating defines the physicist's concept of equivalence.
They were concerned mainly with loose tools, pails and buckets and canteen equipment.
One lad had his lunch pail with him in the room.
I discussed this matter with an expert recently, and he described the pail used for milking as absolutely prehistoric.
Why this crossing the river to fill the pail?