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Definition of Barrelfuls
1. barrelful [n] - See also: barrelful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barrelfuls
Literary usage of Barrelfuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Health Habits by Michael Vincent O'Shea, John Harvey Kellogg (1915)
"Count how many times you breathe in a minute, and then reckon up how many barrelfuls
of air you need. You w „ breathe twenty times in a minute, ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"Several barrelfuls of material from the Claiborne group in Alabama were obtained ;
and the sorting of the extremely interesting collection included In them ..."
3. Travels in Alaska by John Muir (1915)
"... day and night, through dark and light, on and on for centuries; how the red
blood must rush and gurgle in and out, bucketfuls, barrelfuls at a beat! ..."
4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1888)
"... eleven barrels of eggs on one trip ; this year it is much to be doubted
if (aside from the Puffins) there have been two barrelfuls laid on the island. ..."
5. Colonial Days & Ways as Gathered from Family Papers by Smith, Helen Evertson (1900)
"All of these were dainties which the cop- per-hued guests could duly appreciate,
especially with the addition of barrelfuls of hard cider and as much West ..."
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