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Definition of Jarfuls
1. jarful [n] - See also: jarful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jarfuls
Literary usage of Jarfuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Elementary Chemistry: By George Rantoul White by George Rantoul White (1894)
"Take the large bottle and pour into it two jarfuls of water. ... Then pour in
five more jarfuls, and make another mark at the height of the seven ..."
2. Water-supply: (Considered Principally from a Sanitary Standpoint.) by William Pitt Mason (1896)
"This connection must be thoroughly tight. Place 200 cc pure water in the retort
and add 10 cc of the sodic carbonate solution. Distil off two jo-cc jarfuls ..."
3. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1901)
"It may be fairly estimated that 2000 more jarfuls are consumed by the inhabitants
of the villages on the river. Now, it takes twelve basketfuls of eggs, ..."
4. Central Asia: Travels in Cashmere, Little Thibet and Central Asia by Bayard Taylor, Thomas Stevens (1892)
"She seemed to fetch far more jarfuls than could be necessary, and made little
opportunities of lingering about the doorway and looking at the English ..."
5. A System of Chemistry: In Four Volumes by Thomas Thomson (1818)
"Oxygen gas is not sensibly absorbed by water, though jarfuls of it be left in
contact with that liquid. It has been ascertained, however, that water does in ..."
6. A System of Chemistry by Thomas Thomson (1810)
"Oxygen gas is not sensibly absorbed by water, Combin»- though jarfuls of it be
left in contact with that liquid, water. ..."
7. The naturalist on the river Amazons by Henry Walter Bates (1873)
"estimated that 2,0.00 more jarfuls are consumed by the inhabitants of the villages
on the river. Now, it takes at least twelve basketfuls of eggs, ..."
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