sackful

English

Etymology 1

sack (“bag”) +‎ -ful

Noun

sackful (plural sackfuls or sacksful)

the amount a sack would contain
A sackful of sand won't help the soil here much, but a dump truck full would.

Translations

the amount a sack would contain

Finnish: pussillinen, repullinen (fi), säkillinen
Hungarian: zsáknyi
Irish: lán mála m, lán saic m

Italian: sacco (it) m, saccata f
Norman: satchie f (Jersey, Guernsey), pouquelée f (Jersey), poutchie f (Jersey)

Etymology 2

sack (verb) +‎ -ful

Adjective

sackful (comparative more sackful, superlative most sackful)

(obsolete) Intent on plunder.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sackful in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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