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Definition of Boatful
1. n. The quantity or amount that fills a boat.
Definition of Boatful
1. Noun. Enough of something to fill a boat, or a boat filled with the thing in question ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Boatful
1. as much as a boat can hold [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boatful
Literary usage of Boatful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1879)
"... from trees, and even from lamp-posts, to which they had clung in their desperation.
Through the day boatful after boatful was brought in safety to the ..."
2. A Treatise on the Parties to Actions, and on Pleading: With Second and Third by Joseph Chitty, Thomas Chitty, John A. Dunlap, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1837)
"... ought not to be barred from having and maintaining his aforesaid '"i d'f i'
act'°" thereof against her, because he says, that the said Jane boatful, ..."
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