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Pail vs Vail - What's the difference?

pail | vail |

As a noun 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) .

As a proper noun vail is

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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

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    vail

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) profit; return; proceeds.
  • * Chapman
    • My house is as were the cave where the young outlaw hoards the stolen vails of his occupation.
  • (chiefly, in the plural, obsolete) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; also vale .
    • (Dryden)

    Etymology 2

    Aphetic form of

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) submission

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To yield.
  • * South
    • Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity.
  • (obsolete) To remove as a sign of deference, as a hat.
  • * Shakespeare
    • France must vail her lofty-plumed crest!
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • without vailing his bonnet or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic
  • To let fall; to allow or cause to sink.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Vail your regard / Upon a wronged, I would fain have said, a maid!

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Verb

    (en verb)

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