Definition of Trunkful

1. n. As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.

Definition of Trunkful

1. Noun. As much as a trunk will hold ¹

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Definition of Trunkful

1. as much as a trunk (a storage box) can hold [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trunkful

trunk-makers
trunk call
trunk calls
trunk hose
trunk lid
trunk line
trunk of atrioventricular bundle
trunk of corpus callosum
trunk road
trunk route
trunkback
trunkbacks
trunked
trunkfish
trunkfishes
trunkful (current term)
trunkfuls
trunking
trunkings
trunkless
trunklike
trunkline
trunklines
trunkload
trunkloads
trunks
trunks of brachial plexus
trunnel
trunnels
trunnion

Literary usage of Trunkful

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1906)
"Y ou see, here I 'm getting ready to go away to school with a whole trunkful of new clothes; and now I 'm crying like a baby because a girl I don't like is ..."

2. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1836)
"trunkful after trunkful was abstracted, but still the lourd rhinoceros continued to push the straw towards the place whence it disappeared: the twinkle in ..."

3. A Guide to Mythology by Helen Archibald Clarke (1908)
"As soon as we have broken that trunkful of needles, and used up that trunkful of thread, that instant will death arrive!" Prince Ivan burst into tears and ..."

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