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Definition of Shipfuls
1. shipful [n] - See also: shipful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shipfuls
Literary usage of Shipfuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1880)
"... [Southampton] against 33 shipfuls, and there a mickle reckoning slew, and had
the day. And this year forth-fared ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1854)
"... brought three " shipfuls " more, to found the kingdom of Wessex The absurdity
of the prevaling notion, and the origin of the error, are shown in some ..."
3. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1909)
"... who began at the same time to be unloaded by shipfuls on the colonies and to
be treated almost exactly the same as the indentured white servants. ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1867)
"... brought three " shipfuls " more, to found the kingdom of Wessex. The absurdity
of the prevaling notion, and the origin of the error, are shown in some ..."
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