DAILY VOCABULARY WITH PICTURES. Pail.

• pail [countable] especially American English
• 1 a metal or wooden container with a handle, used for carrying liquids [= bucket]:
• a milk pail
• pail of
• a pail of water
• 2 also pailful the amount of liquid a pail will hold

Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.