pailful

2 definitions found

pailful - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pailful \Pail"ful\, n.; pl. Pailfuls.
     The quantity that a pail will hold. "By pailfuls." --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

pailful - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  pailful
      n 1: the quantity contained in a pail [syn: pail, pailful]