barrelful
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See -ful.
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Origin of barrelful
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at barrel, -ful
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Still, the Seahawks might not have won if not for a barrelful of mistakes by the Cardinals.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 22, 2023
“You might say, it’s a little bit of water, just a barrelful, how much damage could that do to someone downstream?”
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2015
And the money no longer rains down on presidential and congressional campaigns by the barrelful.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2014
Then Sergei decides to skip a few shifts to go catch them a barrelful of fresh Arctic trout, and while he's away Pasha receives an emergency radio message delivering terrible news.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2011
The King of Sweden sent them a barrelful of sweet and sour pork.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
It was affirmed, none the less, that one barrel of the original stuff was more than enough for three barrelfuls of the bottled product.
From South Wind by Norman Douglas
"By the time Nan's ready," he said, having at that point asked her intermittently for several years, "I shall be getting barrelfuls out of my plays."
From Old Crow by Alice Brown
Even with this highest incentive, Mr. White tells us that dozens of barrelfuls of manuscript were rejected; and not one patriot was found whose principles—as expressed in his poetry—were worth that much money!
From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. DeLeon
Here there were basketfuls, boxfuls, bucketfuls, barrelfuls, wagonloads—the whole street was crowded with wagons, and every wagon heaped high with the crimson and yellow fruit.
From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Albert Bigelow Paine
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