Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
peel .
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Examples
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Ef ai traid tu du dat, mai feetswud tangle an ai wud end up inna paile onda flur.
Turn gravity back on!!!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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Well, where shee had beene to fetch a paile of water, which shee set downe, and stood (accompanied with other maidens) to see the passage by of the Lord Marquesse and his traine.
The Decameron 2004
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Earth turns wood into stone and had a piece of it; it seemes its only one sort of wood the Aldertree which turns so, and Lay or drive a paile or Stake into the ground there in seven yeares its petrify'd into stone, from thence to Onborn wch is 3 mile more.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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I have Seen in Kentucky, with a paile Pink flower, also one which grow in Clusters about 4 or 5 feet high bearing a Short flour in clusters of the like Colour. the leaves Single.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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By drinking oftener, thou shalt be neuer awhit the more satisfyed: for the body thou cariest, like the bored paile of _Danaus_ daughters, will neuer be full.
A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier Robert Garnier 1591
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Ibey will retnm to a paile ..,. iiilhed, - taking,. great care the wax Make ibme ftrong Gum-Arabic doeg not boil.
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These Lodges are about 4 miles asunder and its a great Priviledge and advantage to be a Cheefe Keeper of any of these Lodges; they have Venison as much as they please and Can easily shoote it when the troop Comes up wth in ye paile, for none are allowed to Shoot out in ye forrest, nor are allowed to go out wth Gun or dog or to keep any Except Gentlemen, and not they if they have been found Shooteing in ye fforest.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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$olid foundation of a: ny of these stories, is an accidentdi 'elongadon of th and sung unto thf paile.
Illustrations of Sterne: with other essays and verses Ferriar, John, 1761-1815 1812
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