"pailful" meaning in English

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          "text": "Here's neither buſh, nor ſhrub to beare off any weather at all: and another Storme brewing, I heare it ſing ith' winde: yond ſame blacke cloud, yond huge one, lookes like a foule bumbard that would ſhed his licquor: if it ſhould thunder, as it did before, I know not where to hide my head: yond ſame cloud cannot chooſe but fall by paile-fuls.",
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          "text": "McGrath's lounge was a vast brownish room, with a beige ceiling of heavy plaster divided into squares […] and finally swabbed with pailfuls of gilt.",
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          "sense": "amount that would fill a pail",
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          "word": "lán tobáin"
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          "roman": "pólnoje vedró",
          "sense": "amount that would fill a pail",
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          "word": "по́лное ведро́"
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