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Definition of Tumblerfuls
1. tumblerful [n] - See also: tumblerful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumblerfuls
Literary usage of Tumblerfuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kettner's Book of the Table: A Manual of Cookery, Practical, Theoretical by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1877)
"... rum in tumblerfuls of new milk! OF MUTTON.—There is really but one way of
doing a saddle—to roast it; but the French have a way of sometimes boning it, ..."
2. Dr. Chase's Recipes: Or, Information for Everybody; an Invaluable Collection by Alvin Wood Chase, William Wesley Cook (1920)
"Flour 1 tumblerful (heaping).. .6 ozs. Flour 4 tumblerfuls 1 Ib. Flour 4 ...
Lard 2 tumblerfuls 1 Ib. Lard, melted 1 tumblerful 7 ozs. ..."
3. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1893)
"In brief, Dr. Shorr made every patient coming under his observation to at once
drink as many as possible tumblerfuls of hot water containing three drops of ..."
4. Females and Their Diseases: A Series of Letters to His Class by Charles Delucena Meigs (1848)
"... a common breast tube, draw out two large tumblerfuls from one breast, at one
sitting; ... two large tumblerfuls in the breast when she began to draw it, ..."
5. Priests and People in Ireland by Michael John Fitzgerald McCarthy (1903)
"... tumblerfuls" of wine, which he handed to the females present, each of whom
approached the priest and made a curtsey as she took her tumbler of liquor ..."
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