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Definition of Skinfuls
1. skinful [n] - See also: skinful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skinfuls
Literary usage of Skinfuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tatterdemalion by John Galsworthy (1920)
"The niggers had collected skinfuls of stones of all kinds, and out of all the
skinfuls Ray found three or four diamonds. So he went to work and got another ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1868)
"... from the way they began to straggle into our camp with a few bundles of grass
and skinfuls of barley before we had been many hours within reach of them. ..."
3. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Madinah and Meccah by Richard Francis Burton (1856)
"We then went to the door of the building in which is Zem Zem : there I was
condemned to another nauseous draught, and was deluged with two or three skinfuls ..."
4. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah by Richard Francis Burton, Isabel Burton, Stanley Lane-Poole (1906)
"... and was deluged with two or three skinfuls of water dashed over my head en
douche. This ablution causes sins to fall from the spirit like dust.8 During ..."
5. Why Europe Leaves Home: A True Account of the Reasons which Cause Central by Kenneth Lewis Roberts (1922)
"... in England and Wales alone, over eight thousand clubs in which kindred souls
may assemble and accumulate skinfuls of alcoholic beverages in emulation of ..."
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