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pitcherfuls

pitcherfuls is the plural of pitcherful.

Meaning of pitcherful

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

Questions about pitcherfuls

What is pitcherfuls the plural of?
Pitcherfuls is the plural of pitcherful.

Words near pitcherfuls in the dictionary

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

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