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sackful
noun 2adj 1
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2VERB + SACKFUL
got
SACKFUL + NOUN
sand
Definitions
noun
1
The amount a sack will contain.
A sackful of sand won't help the soil here much, but a dump truck full would.
If I be not so rich, as to sowe almes by sackfulls, euen my Mite, is beyond the superfluity of wealth: and my pen, my tongue, and my life, shal (I hope) helpe some to better treasure, then the earth affoords them.
2
A large number or amount (of something).
what can the Pope say more for his sackfull of traditions?
[…] away we went home again fraught with a Sackful of news to tell our Master.
adj
1
Intent on plunder.
Now will I sing the sackfull troopes, Pelasgian Argos held,
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noun — the quantity contained in a sack
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A sackful of sand won't help the soil here much, but a dump truck full would.
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If I be not so rich, as to sowe almes by sackfulls, euen my Mite, is beyond the superfluity of wealth: and my pen, my tongue, and my life, shal (I hope) helpe some to better treasure, then the earth a
Wiktionary03
Potatoes were getting very scarce. If you got a sackful you could take them down to the cook-house and swap them for a water-bottleful of coffee.
Wiktionary04
Now will I sing the sackfull troopes, Pelasgian Argos held,
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