boatful
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English botefull, botfull, equivalent to boat + -ful.
Noun edit
boatful (plural boatfuls or boatsful)
- Enough of something to fill a boat, or a boat filled with the thing in question
- The city consumes boatfuls of fish every day.
- 2007 January 1, Amy Cortese, “At Sea With a Book to Read, and the Author of It, Too”, in New York Times[1]:
- Often sponsored by publishers, the cruises, aboard commercial liners, feature popular authors who give readings and seminars -- even knitting lessons -- to boatfuls of book lovers.
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