pail, pailful
(noun) the quantity contained in a pail
Source: WordNet® 3.1
pailful (plural pailfuls or pailsful)
The amount that fills, or would fill, a pail. [from 16th c.]
Source: Wiktionary
Pail"ful, n.; pl. Pailfuls (.
Definition: The quantity that a pail will hold. "By pailfuls." Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
