coatful

The amount that a coat can hold.

And here we walk in the house with two coatfuls and armfuls of these bulbs.

Instead of using the coat to batter the threat away, he used its length and bulk like a huge net. He cast it out, scooping coatfuls of the fluttering horde out of the air.

A quantity that is contained within a coat.

A coatful of wind is called an admiral.

Two Negro women were being held after a patrolman on downtown duty watched them unload coatsful of items into a parked Cadillac.

A quantity that sits on a coat.

And when Franz Liszt sat down at the piano, sporting shoulder-length hair and a coatful of glittering medals, the ladies threw their jewels onto the stage, battled over his gloves and even his cigar butts, and of course swooned.

With this coatful of painful weapons, it is not surprising that a porcupine has few enemies.