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Definition of Pocketfuls
1. pocketful [n] - See also: pocketful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pocketfuls
Literary usage of Pocketfuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
""Take pocketfuls of love besides to them all at home," was her last word before
he closed the outer door on himself. " I suppose your father wanted your ..."
2. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1918)
"He carried pocketfuls of gems, which he loved to turn over and examine; he haunted
picture-galleries and jewellers' shops. Like Whitman, whom he is said to ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"... capfuls, pocketfuls), and all combinations of full. Nouns of space, weight,
and number are unchanged in the plural, whether used collectively or not, ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
"... and rich-colored Spanish chestnuts thumping the sward, and sometimes striking
you as you pass under ; they lie on the ground in pocketfuls. ..."
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