sackful

noun 2adj 1

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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