Collocations for pail - noun

empty, full
five-gallon, ten-gallon
metal, plastic
garbage (AmE)
She threw all the scraps into a garbage pail.

diaper (AmE)
lunch (= for carrying your lunch)

fill
She filled the pail with fresh water.

carry
fetch, lug (informal)
Women in some villages had to trudge miles to fetch one pail of water.

be full of sth, hold sth
overflow

in a/the pail
pail of
pails of soapy water

a shovel and pail (AmE)
The children played on the beach with their shovels and pails.

mop and pail
a worker equipped with a mop and pail