meaning of pail
pail noun [C]. âº a bucket: Fill the pail with âsand. It took several pails of âwater (= the âamount a pail âcontains) to put out the âfire. (Definition of pail from the Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary & Thesaurus Â© Cambridge University Press).ail noun [C]. âº a âcontainer, usually with a âcurved âhandle âattached to âopposite âsides of the âtop âedge: She âcarried a pail of âwater. (Definition of pail from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Â© Cambridge University Press). See all translations.