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A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover.

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  1. n. A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover.
  2. n. a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top
  3. n. the quantity contained in a pail
  4. A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover. Shak.
  5. A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having abail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; abucket. It may, or may not, have a cover. Shak.
  6. n:100 n. the quantity contained in a pail