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kitful

kitful noun: enough to fill a kit (basket or staved vessel).

Noun

kitful (plural kitfuls)

  1. Enough to fill a kit (basket or staved vessel).
    • A kitful of salted butter had been gathered, little by little, and now a store of dried ling and cod was laid up, with a barrel of Loch Fyne herring and a quantity of rock-dried saithe.2025, F. Marian McNeill, Catherine Brown, The Scots Kitchen: Classic Recipes and Traditions

Forms of kitful

pluralkitfuls

Origin of kitful

kit + -ful

Questions about kitful

What does kitful mean?
Kitful means enough to fill a kit (basket or staved vessel).
What part of speech is kitful?
Kitful is a noun.
What is the plural of kitful?
The plural of kitful is kitfuls.

Words near kitful in the dictionary

  1. kitesurfs
  2. Kitezh
  3. kitfo
  4. kitfox
  5. kitfoxes
  6. kitful
  7. kitfuls
  8. kith
  9. kith and kin
  10. kith and kine
  11. Kithairon

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