flaskful
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flaskful (plural flaskfuls or flasksful)
- As much as a flask will hold.
- 1859, “Lyons’ Powder!---Death to Insects!”, in D. Lee, D. Redmond, C. W. Howard, editors, The Southern Cultivator, a Monthly Journal, […], volume XVII, Augusta, Ga.: William S. Jones, page 361:
- For the benefit of seedsmen and orchardists I would say, I have found “Lyons’ Magnetic powder” effec[t]ual in driving insects from seed and away from all places they infest, and have no doubt a few flasksful thrown in the crevices of fruit trees, would drive the pests from their fortresses.