pail
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A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover.
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A common morning kitchen scene was my father coming up from the basement with a pail of red hot cinders from the coal burning furnace in the basement and passing through the kitchen on the way to the mud porch to empty the hot cinders.
A chambermaid finally decides to teach him by fetching a pail full of water filled with minnows and dumping it on the boy in his bed while he sleep.
High cases of timber theft in the region of NTB are contributing to this problem. citation In September 2010, Central Lombok some villagers were reported to be walking for several hours to fetch a single pail of water.
Faraday cage In his work on static electricity, Faraday's ice pail experiment demonstrated that the charge resided only on the exterior of a charged conductor, and exterior charge had no influence on anything enclosed within a conductor.
More than 50 mosquito larvae were also found breeding at two premises at Bukit Panjang Road - one in a ceramic vase with bamboo plants and another in a mop pail.
A few years ago, a pest exterminator in Jerusalem made the error of leaving behind a pail of pesticides in an apartment he had worked in. The results of his error were fatal.