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Definition of Cupful
1. Noun. The quantity a cup will hold. "He borrowed a cup of sugar"
Definition of Cupful
1. n. As much as a cup will hold.
Definition of Cupful
1. Noun. The amount necessary to make a cup full ¹
2. Noun. A half pint, i.e. eight ounces ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cupful
1. as much as a cup can hold [n CUPFULS or CUPSFUL]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cupful
Literary usage of Cupful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Consolidated Library of Modern Cooking and Household Recipes by Christine Terhune Herrick (1904)
"A cupful of butter, packed solid, is l\/z ounces. A cupful of corn meal is 5 ounces.
A cupful of stemmed currants, heaped up, is 6 ounces. A level cupful of ..."
2. The Child Welfare Manual: A Handbook of Child Nature and Nuture for Parents by University Society, New York (1919)
"... УА cupful corn meal 2 cupful cream of wheat 2 cupful rice 2 cupful rolled oats
1 1/6 cupful canned peas 2 cupful canned beans 2 cupful canned tomatoes ..."
3. Two Hundred Recipes for Making Salads: With Thirty Recipes for Dressings and by Olive M. Hulse (1910)
"Add the mixture gradually to the whites of the two eggs beaten stiff; when cold
fold in one-half of a cupful of cream beaten stiff. Mould and chill. ..."
4. The Domestic World: A Practical Guide in All the Daily Difficulties of the by Robert Kemp Philp (1889)
"Stir together a large coffee-cupful of light brown or white sugar, and half a
cupful of butter ; add to it half a pint of sweet milk and half a pint of warm ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"... and poured out a cupful of some liquid resembling coffee at the foot of my horse.
The man's countenance looked “welcome” and “backsheesh. ..."
6. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1915)
""Shortly after swallowing/a breakfast cupful of the contrast meal the whole
stomach was mapped out by what was obviously the barium lying between the walls ..."
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