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shellfuls

shellfuls is the plural of shellful.

Meaning of shellful

Noun

shellful (plural shellfuls or shellsful)

  1. Enough to fill a shell.
    • "Coomara! And a mighty dacint sort of a name it is, too," cried Jack, taking another shellful: "here's, then, to your good health, Coomara, and may you live these fifty years."1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 532

Questions about shellfuls

What is shellfuls the plural of?
Shellfuls is the plural of shellful.

Words near shellfuls in the dictionary

  1. shellfishes
  2. shellfishing
  3. shellflower
  4. shellflowers
  5. shellful
  6. shellfuls
  7. Shellharbour
  8. shellheap
  9. shellheaps
  10. shellie
  11. shellier

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