sackful

[ sak-fool ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural sack·fuls.

See -ful.

Origin of sackful¹

First recorded in 1475–85; sack ¹ + -ful

Buy when they say you have to make your own bed they really mean it and hand you a sackful of straw.

She obeyed, but the man who owed her the gold deceived her by giving her a sackful of earth.

I says to myself, they'll follow the track of that sackful of rocks to the shore and then drag the river for me.

I am master of a hundred arts, and have into the bargain a sackful of cunning.

The merchant gave him the cat, received a sackful of gold, and as soon as he had settled his affairs, started on his way back.

It appeared hard to believe that anyone could find pleasure in packing about a sackful of heavy rocks on a hot day.

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