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Pail vs Carboy - What's the difference?

pail | carboy |

As nouns the difference between pail and carboy

is that pail is 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) while carboy is a large, globular glass bottle, especially one of green glass, encased in basket work or in a box and used to hold corrosive liquids.

pail

English

Noun

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

    • Synonyms

    * bucket

    Anagrams

    * * * ----

    carboy

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large, globular glass bottle, especially one of green glass, encased in basket work or in a box and used to hold corrosive liquids.
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1917 , year_published=2008 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=A Princess of Mars , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=A few of them then boarded her and were busily engaged in what appeared, from my distant position, as the emptying of the contents of various carboys upon the dead bodies of the sailors and over the decks and works of the vessel. }}

    Synonyms

    * demijohn