slop pail

noun

1. a pail for conveying slop in feeding livestock, especially pigs.
2. a pail into which household slop is collected for disposal.

Word History and Origins

Origin of slop pail¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

First, the aforesaid emptying of the critical slop-pail on Coleridge.

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And now that slop-pail in which the cigarette ends were swimming looked incredibly disgusting.

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He used to forget to empty the chief's slop-pail, and the water would overflow the cabin.

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Hanging awkwardly from a nail in the wall, a slop pail of enamelled iron.

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This is convenient, as the whole of the ground beneath the house can thus be used as a slop-pail, waste-basket, and rubbish heap.

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