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Definition of Pitcherfuls
1. pitcherful [n] - See also: pitcherful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pitcherfuls
Literary usage of Pitcherfuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Practical Medicine: With Particular Reference to Physiology by Felix von Niemeyer (1883)
"... with each successive employment of the douche we must increase the number of
pitcherfuls. I shall lastly mention that frictions with mercurial ointment, ..."
2. A Text-book of practical medicine, with particular reference to physiology by Felix von Niemeyer (1883)
"He particularly quoted the case of an old official, over whose head he daily
poured as much as fifty pitcherfuls of cold water. CHAPTER IX. ..."
3. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1896)
"... then larger quantities of water should be poured over the body by squeezing
a large sponge quickly over different parts. Later pitcherfuls or ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"And causing Visakha to bathe herself with sixteen pitcherfuls of perfumed water,
he placed her in front of The Teacher, and putting her parure upon her, ..."
5. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1881)
"One of the young men modestly replied, "Yes: we filled the cistern this morning:
but it leaks, and requires a few pitcherfuls more." "Why do you do it? ..."
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