WordNet
n. a pail in which a workman carries his lunch or dinner [syn: dinner bucket]
Usage examples of "dinner pail".
Watching from the window, she had seen Alden meet Bull Symes at the bottom of the path, and then Freddy Dinsmore had joined them and down at the cove she saw her own husband, whom she had sent out that morning just as usual, with his dinner pail under his arm.
He dressed, made himself coffee, breakfasted on bread and jam, and made a sandwich of bread and tinned beef to throw in his dinner pail.
Thus fortified, he walked the half a mile to work, the dinner pail brushing his left thigh with every step he took.
They show the sufferer before and after taking, in the first case with drawn face and hollow eyes and the general look of one shortly about to hand in his dinner pail, in the second all beans and buck and what the French call bien etre.