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- Whats the difference between “bucket” and “pail”?
Water sloshed from his pails with every stride, splashing round his legs, whilst his bells played a marching song Tyrion set the pails of water on the ground, grateful for the halt More refuse showered down from windows and balconies: half-rotted fruit, pails of beer, eggs that exploded into sulfurous stink when they cracked open on the ground
- Another word for carrying pole? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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- Why is a jug of draft beer called a growler?
The neighbors are generally instructed in the "open sesame" which obtains admittance, and stragglers with pitchers and tin pails are regular visitants to the side door, conveying beer too the orgies in the adjacent shanties and tenements This is the pleasing process technically known as "working the can" or "rushing the growler "
- Word to describe something as inadequately small in comparison
I'm looking for a word that would describe y as being 'pale in comparison' to x So an example is a fantasy story where X and Y receive special powers from their gods, with X gaining a full body
- If my boat is sinking should I bale or bail the water out?
From various literary examples it appears that I should manually 'bail' out the water to keep afloat but the automated water removal system in my vessel is a 'baling pump'
- History of tough as nails - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Early instances of 'tough as nails' The earliest Google Books match for "tough as nails" is from "Some More Chapters in the History of John Bull," in Punch, or the London Charivari (February 28, 1857):
- word choice - What are these containers called for waste? - English . . .
Trash is assorted unwanted debris, but garbage includes food waste and other things that start to smell or attract vermin germs if they sit; garbage pails or cans usually have a lid to contain odors When I was a kid in the 1960s we had both a trash can and a garbage pail, because, I think, the city collected them separately
- meaning - Origin of tootsie or tootsy (foot) - English Language . . .
The last ring has brought the last parcel to the door, which of course ought to have arrived first in the morning; the small children have been rapidly undressed and put to bed with the wild notion that they will stay there, and not walk calmly down stairs some three or four hours afterwards in their night-gowns, with their little naked white
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