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Definition of Pailfuls
1. pailful [n] - See also: pailful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pailfuls
Literary usage of Pailfuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pilgrim Fathers: Or, The Founders of New England in the Reign of James by William Henry Bartlett (1853)
"... houses,—or to a chance salute from some twirling mop, or a sudden shock from
one of the endless pailfuls with which the foot-pavement is being deluged. ..."
2. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1855)
"It may be poured from a considerable height by pailfuls on the naked patient, or
may be used as a bath. Great reduction of the vital actions is induced, ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1799)
"The price of a load (two pailfuls) of water, at that time, was fix Jais ¡ and
the quantity ihe required would have coft him more than he earned by his work. ..."
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