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ewerful

ewerful noun: as much as a ewer will hold.

Noun

ewerful (plural ewerfuls or ewersful)

  1. As much as a ewer will hold.
    • This is a wonderful place: a cream-ewerful skimmed off the great pan of London.1804 October 14, Alexander Knox, Remains of Alexander Knox, Esq., volume IV, London: James Duncan, published 1837, page 184
    • That lie on ivory diwans and sprawl on their couches—another luxurious custom, which filled this rude shepherd with contempt—and eat lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the stall—that is, only the most delicate of meats—who prate or purr or babble to the sound of the viol, and as if...1896, George Adam Smith, “The False Peace of Ritual: Amos iv. 4—vi.”, in The Book of the Twelve Prophets, Commonly Called the Minor (The Expositor’s Bible; edited by W[illiam] Robertson Nicoll)...

Examples of ewerful in a sentence

  • In the city he often recaptured inspiration by playing with a ewerful of it, pouring it over his hands and head.1929, New Outlook, page 185:
  • I gasped like someone wakened from a sleepwalk, as shocked as if the ewerful of water had struck my face instead of Kambar Ali Street.2004, Heskel M. Haddad, Born in Baghdad, Authors Choice Press, →ISBN:
  • He saw a future where he learned the art of brewing root beer and brought Halley root beer floats by the ewerful.2018, Cidney Swanson, chapter 58, in A Thief in Time, →ISBN:
  • “It was actually Hippocrates, another Greek physician, who discovered the humors,” she tells me as I pour a ewerful of water over her hair, careful that it not sluice into her eyes.2020, Lana Popović, Blood Countess, New York, N.Y.: Amulet Books, →ISBN:

Forms of ewerful

pluralewerfuls
pluralewersful

Origin of ewerful

From ewer + -ful.

Questions about ewerful

What does ewerful mean?
Ewerful means as much as a ewer will hold.
How do you use ewerful in a sentence?
In the city he often recaptured inspiration by playing with a ewerful of it, pouring it over his hands and head.
What part of speech is ewerful?
Ewerful is a noun.
What is the plural of ewerful?
The plural of ewerful is ewerfuls.

Words near ewerful in the dictionary

  1. Ewenki
  2. Ewenny
  3. ewer
  4. ewerer
  5. ewerers
  6. ewerful
  7. ewerfuls
  8. eweries
  9. ewers
  10. ewersful
  11. Ewert

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