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saucepansful

saucepansful is the plural of saucepanful.

Meaning of saucepanful

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

Questions about saucepansful

What is saucepansful the plural of?
Saucepansful is the plural of saucepanful.

Words near saucepansful in the dictionary

  1. saucepanfuls
  2. saucepanlike
  3. saucepanned
  4. saucepanning
  5. saucepans
  6. saucepansful
  7. sauceplate
  8. sauceplates
  9. saucepot
  10. saucepots
  11. saucer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saucepansful (page history and authors); saucepanful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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