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pitcherful

pitcherful noun: the quantity that a pitcher can hold.

Noun

pitcherful (plural pitcherfuls or pitchersful)

  1. The quantity that a pitcher can hold.
    • The biographer, especially of a literary man, need only mark the main currents of tendency, without being officious to trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest.1876, James Russell Lowell, “Milton”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 255

Forms of pitcherful

pluralpitcherfuls
pluralpitchersful

Origin of pitcherful

From pitcher + -ful.

Questions about pitcherful

What does pitcherful mean?
Pitcherful means the quantity that a pitcher can hold.
What part of speech is pitcherful?
Pitcherful is a noun.
What is the plural of pitcherful?
The plural of pitcherful is pitcherfuls.

Words near pitcherful in the dictionary

  1. pitcher's rubber
  2. pitcher's rubbers
  3. pitcher-bawd
  4. pitcher-bawds
  5. pitchered
  6. pitcherful
  7. pitcherfuls
  8. pitcheri
  9. pitcherless
  10. pitcherlike
  11. pitchers

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