WordNet
n. a large pail used to receive waste water from a washbasin or chamber pot [syn: slop jar]
Usage examples of "slop pail".
She dumped the contents of her slop pail against the roots of the cow-tree and stamped the waste firmly down against the wood.
With a sense of urgency she forced her legs through the snow, dragging the slop pail behind her.
Officer Joseph Hyde, on guard that night, reported that he saw Lizzie and Alice go down to the cellar with a kerosene lamp and carrying a slop pail.
Finally the old one picks up a slop pail by her side and makes a move forward.
The bedroom window shot up and the slop pail whistled past his unreddened ear.
Then she turned and walked out, the slop pail carried effortlessly in one huge hand.
One of them looked into the waterpail and the other took the slop pail from the corner and they went out again.
She pointed to a metal oil-slop pail and when it was fetched, she laid the crystal in it.
One of the pigs woke up and gave him the once-over, but flopped back on its side when it saw he bore no slop pail.