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Definition of Dishfuls
1. dishful [n] - See also: dishful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dishfuls
Literary usage of Dishfuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Jesuits, Reuben Gold Thwaites (1898)
"She found only about two little dishfuls, for the food on her journey, which was
to last more than two months. That greatly terrified her; ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"Four dishfuls of quartz produced as much as two pounds weight of gold ; and "
are reported to be more gold and quartz than quartz and gold. ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Some of them had been purveying abroad, and had found a vessel filled with Scotch
cream : bringing the reversion of it to their tents, some got dishfuls, ..."
4. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1867)
"... half a pound of wine lyes, or two or three dishfuls of broom blossoms, whereof
it is good always to have some dry in your house to make, ..."
5. The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men ...by William Hone by William Hone (1841)
"... IOCS customary to produce in a churn a great quantity of cream, and to circulate
it by dishfuls to each of the rustic company, who ate it with bread. ..."
6. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English by Richard Hakluyt (1907)
"... that for a bason hee would not give 15. pound waight of Graines, and sometimes
would offer us small dishfuls, whereas before wee had baskets full, ..."
7. A History of Nova-Scotia, Or Acadie by Beamish Murdoch (1865)
"... three dishfuls of peas or beans, and one dishful of prunes. During this time
of scarcity, their Indian friends, (with the exception of the family of ..."
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