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Definition of Cansful
1. canful [n] - See also: canful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cansful
Literary usage of Cansful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1868)
"Having nothing better, I took an old oyster can, holding near a quart, and soon
caught it full of the fluid, continuing to fill and empty until four cansful ..."
2. From Benguella to the Territory of Yacca: Description of a Journey Into by Hermenegildo Carlos de Brito Capello, Roberto Ivens, Alfred Elwes (1882)
"... and could not be set entirely at his ease by the turn the conversation assumed;
for N'Dumba, after swallowing a couple more cansful of mead, ..."
3. What's the Matter with Ireland? by Ruth Russell (1920)
"... for Ennis cows are raised to supply wholesale cansful to creameries which make
the supply into dairy products for exportation.9 Bread-and-tea, ..."
4. The Lay Preacher by John Bate (1872)
"On one of the nests of these little pilferers being opened, " two good-sized tin
cansful of grain" were discovered in it. The observations of Israel's royal ..."
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