pailful means the amount that fills, or would fill, a pail. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.
Etymology
From pail + -ful.
noun
- The amount that fills, or would fill, a pail.“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.”