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Definition of Basketfuls
1. basketful [n] - See also: basketful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Basketfuls
Literary usage of Basketfuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metallurgy of Lead: Including Desilverisartion and Cupellation by John Percy (1870)
"The charge usually consists of from 50 to 60 basketfuls of ... from 10 to 12
basketfuls of slags mixed with -J of rich slags (crasses) * from previous ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1866)
"... reminding one of the venerable archdeacon who, •whenever " They took up twelve
basketfuls of the fragments " was read in the lessons, cast up his eyes ..."
3. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1898)
"basketfuls " is au unpleasant plural; but S. Mark's Greek is certainly not less
harsh. As to Mark vi. ..."
4. ... Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons by Adolphus Frederick Schauffler (1881)
"And when the 20 seven among the four thousand, how many basketfuls of broken
pieces took ye up ? And they say unto h1m, Seven. And he said unto 21 them, ..."
5. An Introduction to the New Testament by Adolf Jülicher (1904)
"basketfuls of broken pieces over, and in the other, five thousand men (Matthew
expressly adding ' beside women and children ') are fed with five loaves and ..."
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