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saucepanful

saucepanful noun: enough to fill a saucepan.

Noun

saucepanful (plural saucepanfuls or saucepansful)

  1. Enough to fill a saucepan.
    • But if this method is preferred, after you have drawn off what liquid you can with the syphon without disturbing the sediment at the bottom of the vessel, for this will contain the gold, add three or four saucepansful of boiling water, each saucepanful being added separately, and allowed to cool...1920, George E[dward] Gee, “The Zinc Process”, in Recovering Precious Metals from Waste Liquid Residues: […], London: E. & F. N. Spon, Limited, […]; New York, N.Y.: Spon & Chamberlain, […], page 54

Forms of saucepanful

pluralsaucepanfuls
pluralsaucepansful

Origin of saucepanful

From saucepan + -ful.

Questions about saucepanful

What does saucepanful mean?
Saucepanful means enough to fill a saucepan.
What part of speech is saucepanful?
Saucepanful is a noun.
What is the plural of saucepanful?
The plural of saucepanful is saucepanfuls.

Words near saucepanful in the dictionary

  1. saucemaking
  2. sauceman
  3. saucemen
  4. saucepan
  5. saucepan fish
  6. saucepanful
  7. saucepanfuls
  8. saucepanlike
  9. saucepanned
  10. saucepanning
  11. saucepans

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