A pail or bucket.

A (small) pail or similar vessel, esp. a wooden one with one stave longer than the rest serving as a handle; a vessel of this sort used as a…

A pail, esp. a milk-pail.

A wooden pail, esp. one with a projecting stave for use as a handle, typically used for carrying milk; a piggin.

A milk pail; a pail. Obsolete or dialect.

(See quots.)

(see quot. 1867).

regional. A small wooden pail; a piggin. Now rare.