Definition of Drawerful

1. Noun. A drawer filled with something, or a sufficient quantity of something to fill a drawer ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Drawerful

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drawerful

drawcansir
drawcansirs
drawcard
drawcards
drawcord
drawcords
drawdown
drawdowns
drawe
drawed
drawee
drawees
drawer
drawer sign
drawer test
drawerful
drawerfuls
drawerless
drawers
drawersful
draweth
drawfiling
drawfilings
drawgear
drawgears
drawhead
drawheads
drawing
drawing-room car
drawing board

Literary usage of Drawerful

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 (1893)
"... smiling, and rather jerking fashion, Harry's remarkable feats : how he had one day, when Gappa was asleep, unpinned a whole drawerful of beetles, ..."

2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"It appeared that that huge drawerful of manuscript was single lines, each written on a separate sheet of paper, with a title. The man had never even got so ..."

3. English Synonyms and Antonyms: With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald (1914)
"What is singular is odd, but what is odd may not be singular; as, a drawerful of odd gloves. A strange thing is something hitherto unknown in fact or in ..."

4. The Bookman (1897)
"By that time I had put together from these two sources and from my drawerful of rejected stories Auld Licht Idylls, and in its collected form it again went ..."

5. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1895)
"We have a whole drawerful of Haworth's types, and in every instance the labels are cut in the same peculiar way (see figure); also in every label on which ..."

6. The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including the Private as Well as the by Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow (1904)
"... which you bequeathed to me at parting, with a drawerful of nails to gratify the love of nailing and hammering, which I possess in common with you. ..."

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