Pail vs. Pall

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  • Pail

    A bucket is typically a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone or square, with an open top and a flat bottom, attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail.A bucket is usually an open-top container. In contrast, a pail can have a top or lid and is a shipping container. In common usage, the two terms are often used interchangeably.

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  • Pail (noun)

    A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle — used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover).

    “The milkmaid carried a pail of milk in each hand.”

  • Pail (noun)

    (In technical use) A closed (covered) cylindrical shipping container.

  • Pall (noun)

    Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.

  • Pall (noun)

    A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church.

  • Pall (noun)

    A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice.

  • Pall (noun)

    A pallium (woollen vestment in Roman Catholicism).

  • Pall (noun)

    A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.

    “pairle”

  • Pall (noun)

    A heavy canvas, especially one laid over a coffin or tomb.

  • Pall (noun)

    An outer garment; a cloak or mantle.

  • Pall (noun)

    nausea

  • Pall (noun)

    A feeling of gloom.

    “A pall came over the crowd when the fourth goal was scored.”

    “The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration.”

  • Pall (verb)

    To cloak.

    “Lady Macbeth: Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell (Macbeth Act I Scene v lines 48–9).”

  • Pall (verb)

    To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.

  • Pall (verb)

    To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.

    “The liquor palls.”

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