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Definition of Skepful
1. Noun. The quantity a skep can hold.
Definition of Skepful
1. a basketball [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skepful
Literary usage of Skepful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Agriculturist (1848)
"If two persons are employed, of course one may sink the skep, and dust on tne
arsenic on every skepful shot on the floor, whilst the other stirs and skims ..."
2. A Dictionary of Weights and Measures for the British Isles: The Middle Ages by Ronald Edward Zupko (1985)
"... skepful, fr ON skeppa, bushel]. A mc for grain and other dry products, varying
in size from l or 2 bu (c3.52 or c7.05 dkl) to approximately l or 2 SEAMS ..."
3. A Dictionary of Weights and Measures for the British Isles: The Middle Ages by Ronald Edward Zupko (1985)
"... skepful, fr ON skeppa, bushel]. A mc for grain and other dry products, varying
in size from 1 or 2 bu (c3.52 or c7.05 dkl) to approximately 1 or 2 SEAMS ..."
4. A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases: Collected in Whitby and the by Francis Kildale Robinson (1855)
"... but the specific amount of a skepful does not appear. " A bee-skep," a straw
beehive. To SKERL or SKIRL, to scream. ..."
5. A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases: Collected in Whitby and the by Francis Kildale Robinson (1855)
"... but the specific amount of a skepful does not appear. " A bee-skep," a straw
beehive. To SKERL or SKIRL, to scream. ..."
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