pail
Noun
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A roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top (synset 102913195)
hypernym: vessel - an object used as a container (especially for liquids)hyponym:
- cannikin - a wooden bucket
- dinner bucket, dinner pail - a pail in which a workman carries his lunch or dinner
- dredging bucket - a bucket for lifting material from a channel or riverbed
- kibble - an iron bucket used for hoisting in wells or mining
- slop jar, slop pail - a large pail used to receive waste water from a washbasin or chamber pot
- wine bucket, wine cooler - a bucket of ice used to chill a bottle of wine
part meronym: water wheel, waterwheel - a wheel that rotates by direct action of water; a simple turbinesynonym: bucket -
The quantity contained in a pail (synset 113790677)
hypernym: containerful - the quantity that a container will holdsynonym: pailful
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