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pailfuls

pailfuls is the plural of pailful.

Meaning of pailful

Noun

pailful (plural pailfuls or pailsful)

  1. The amount that fills, or would fill, a pail.
    • Here's neither buſh, nor ſhrub to beare off any weather at all: and another Storme brewing, I heare it ſing ith' winde: yond ſame blacke cloud, yond huge one, lookes like a foule bumbard that would ſhed his licquor: if it ſhould thunder, as it did before, I know not where to hide my head: yond ſame...1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...

Questions about pailfuls

What is pailfuls the plural of?
Pailfuls is the plural of pailful.

Words near pailfuls in the dictionary

  1. paiks
  2. pail
  3. paila
  4. pailas
  5. pailful
  6. pailfuls
  7. Pailin
  8. pailing
  9. pailings
  10. paillard
  11. paillards

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