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- noun Plural form of
pailful .
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Examples
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Dissolve twenty weight of white potash in three pailsful of water.
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When melted, mix it with four pailsful of lye, made of twenty pounds of white potash.
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Salle's direction, Regnar cut a hole in the ice, which would hold about four pailsful of salt water, and filled it to overflowing, while Peter cut up a dozen of the decoys into junks three inches square, and piled them near the door.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
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After boiling each lot half an hour drain them from the boiling water put them in a tub and pour upon them two or three pailsful of clear, hot water; after this they will want very little rubbing; then rinse through two waters, blueing the last.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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Betty should proceed to the roof of the house with two pailsful of water, whilst Agamemnon remained below to watch the effects of the measure.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841 Various
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Dissolve eighteen pounds of potash in three pailsful of water; then add to it twenty-five pounds of grease, and boil it over a slow fire for a couple of hours.
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They went off and talked a couple of minutes before they decided to buy that small glass of raspberries -- it was one ruble -- that you and I have by the pailsful.
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"But now," said Zella, "I shall be able to carry two pailsful to the Queen, who will, I am sure, give me a good price for it."
Rinkitink in Oz Baum, L. Frank 1916
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Tuttle carried the water for their use, two pailsful at a time, and
With Hoops of Steel Florence Finch Kelly 1898
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When the stuccoed front of our house was demolished, to show the oaken pattern (but it had to be re-roughcast to keep out the weather), there were pailsful of honey carried off by the labourers, of course not without wounds and strife: but in ordinary times it is a strange fact that our bees never sting their hosts; be careful only to remain quiet, and there is no war between man and bee.
My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886
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