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shipful

shipful noun: as much as a ship will hold.

Noun

shipful (plural shipfuls or shipsful)

  1. As much as a ship will hold.
    • And in Elinor Gordon’s booth you’ll find a shipful of China Trade porcelains, of a kind that gave the West an image of China that the Chinese thought the West wanted to see.2007 January 19, Holland Cotter, “Treasure Hunt for Grown-Ups With Money”, in New York Times

Forms of shipful

pluralshipfuls
pluralshipsful

Origin of shipful

From Middle English schipful, equivalent to ship + -ful.

Questions about shipful

What does shipful mean?
Shipful means as much as a ship will hold.
What part of speech is shipful?
Shipful is a noun.
What is the plural of shipful?
The plural of shipful is shipfuls.

Words near shipful in the dictionary

  1. shipfic
  2. shipfics
  3. shipfitter
  4. shipfitters
  5. shipfitting
  6. shipful
  7. shipfuls
  8. shipfyrd
  9. shipgirl
  10. shipgirls
  11. Shipham

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