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sackful
Part of speech: NounThe quantity a sack will hold.
Usage examples "sackful":- Good Halimah, Livingstone's cook, had made ready a sackful of fine flour, such as she only could prepare in her fond devotion for her master. - "How I Found Livingstone", Sir Henry M. Stanley.
- Hearing this the curate said, " I do believe that all this family of the Panzas are born with a sackful of proverbs in their insides, every one of them; I never saw one of them that does not pour them out at all times and on all occasions." - "The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete", Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
- " Rotten apples," answered the hostler; " a whole sackful of them- enough to feed the pigs with." - "Journeys Through Bookland V2", Charles H. Sylvester.