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Collocations for pail - noun

→ See also bucket

ADJECTIVE

empty, full
five-gallon, ten-gallon
metal, plastic
garbage
She threw all the scraps into a garbage pail.
diaper
lunch (= for carrying your lunch)

VERB + pail

fill
She filled the pail with fresh water.
carry
fetch, lug
Women in some villages had to trudge miles to fetch one pail of water.

pail + VERB

be full of sth, hold sth
overflow

PREPOSITION

in a/the pail
pail of
pails of soapy water

PHRASES

a shovel and pail
The children played on the beach with their shovels and pails.
mop and pail
a worker equipped with a mop and pail

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