sackful
/ˈsæk.fʊl/
sackful noun: the amount a sack will contain.
Noun
sackful (plural sackfuls or sacksful)
- The amount a sack will contain.
- A sackful of sand won't help the soil here much, but a dump truck full would.
- If I be not so rich, as to sowe almes by sackfulls, euen my Mite, is beyond the superfluity of wealth: and my pen, my tongue, and my life, shal (I hope) helpe some to better treasure, then the earth affoords them.c. 1623, Owen Felltham, Resolves, Divine, Morall, Politicall, London: Henry Seile, Essay 48, p. 155
- Synonyms:
- sackload
- A large number or amount (of something).
- what can the Pope say more for his sackfull of traditions?1590, Henry Barrow, A Brief Discoverie of the False Church, page 231
- […] away we went home again fraught with a Sackful of news to tell our Master.1680, Richard Head, chapter 7, in The English Rogue Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, London: Francis Kirkman, page 87
Adjective
sackful (comparative more sackful, superlative most sackful)
- Intent on plunder.
- Now will I sing the sackfull troopes, Pelasgian Argos held,c. 1611, George Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 2, p. 30
Examples of sackful in a sentence
- If you got a sackful you could take them down to the cook-house and swap them for a water-bottleful of coffee.1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VI, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, page 77:
- So why carry on like a sackful of sick cats just because Herb Clutter got his throat cut?1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Modern Library, published 1992, Part 3, p. 227:
- Day and night the poor fellow raved, and always about that confounded orchid, the loss of which seemed to weigh upon his mind as though it were a whole sackful of unrepented crimes.1915, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 19, in Allan and the Holy Flower, London: Longman, Green, page 349:
Synonyms of sackful
Forms of sackful
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sackfuls |
| plural | sacksful |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more sackful |
| superlative | most sackful |
Origin of sackful
From sack (“bag”) + -ful.
From sack (verb) + -ful.
Questions about sackful
- What does sackful mean?
- Sackful means the amount a sack will contain.
- How do you use sackful in a sentence?
- If you got a sackful you could take them down to the cook-house and swap them for a water-bottleful of coffee.
- What part of speech is sackful?
- Sackful can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce sackful?
- Sackful is pronounced /ˈsæk.fʊl/.
- What is the plural of sackful?
- The plural of sackful is sackfuls.
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