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Definition of Shoeful
1. Noun. The amount that a shoe will hold. "He emptied out a shoeful of water"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoeful
Literary usage of Shoeful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Red Badge of Courage and Four Stories by Stephen Crane (1997)
"One of the wounded men had a shoeful of blood. He hopped like a schoolboy in a game.
He was laughing hysterically. One was swearing' that he had been shot ..."
2. The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane (1900)
"And from this region of noises came the steady current of the maimed. One of the
wounded men had a shoeful of ..."
3. The Metropolitan (1832)
"On then—'tis done with only one shoeful of the element. Now let us mount a little,
and look at the heavenly valley from that slope near the sequestered ..."
4. The Icknield Way by Edward Thomas, A. L. Collins (1913)
"Nevertheless, stumping along on a shoeful of blisters is not bad when you are
out of Royston and have Pen Hills upon your left; low, insignificant, ..."
5. Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers: Being Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club by Alpine Club (London, England), Edward Shirley Kennedy (1862)
"We finished the three bottles that had been left to us; and crossing the Gorner
glacier, with no worse misfortune than an occasional shoeful of water, ..."
6. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay by Asiatic Society of Bombay (1897)
"... "would that a shoeful of excrement were thrown into your faces !" ' Then there
were the expounders of Hinduism, the faith of the vast •majority of ..."
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