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shipsful

shipsful is the plural of shipful.

Meaning of shipful

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

Questions about shipsful

What is shipsful the plural of?
Shipsful is the plural of shipful.

Words near shipsful in the dictionary

  1. ships' companies
  2. ships' husbands
  3. ships-of-the-line
  4. shipset
  5. shipsets
  6. shipsful
  7. shipshape
  8. shipshape and Bristol fashion
  9. shipshapely
  10. shipshed
  11. shipsheds

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