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Definition of Sackful
1. Noun. The quantity contained in a sack.
Definition of Sackful
1. n. As much as a sack will hold.
2. a. Bent on plunder.
Definition of Sackful
1. Noun. the amount a sack would contain ¹
2. Adjective. (obsolete) Intent on plunder. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sackful
1. as much as a sack can hold [n SACKFULS or SACKSFUL]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sackful
Literary usage of Sackful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakespeare Jest-books: Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-books by William Carew Hazlitt (1864)
"T/ie sackful of News. Another. THERE was a Gentlewoman that had a French boy
dwelling with her, and on a time she gave the boy a pennie to fetch her some ..."
2. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1847)
"... and, after a great deal of hypocritical talk, is riding off with a sackful of
gold, having previously ' opened it to ascertain whether all was gold that ..."
3. English Hymns: Their Authors and History by Samuel Willoughby Duffield (1886)
"That very night, though they were strangers in the town, a man brought a sackful
of provisions, and went away without explanation or telling his name. ..."
4. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1894)
"A sackful OF SALMON. By ELA of the pleasantest things about the doing of good
deeds is the charming uncertainty of the manner of coin in which they will be ..."
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