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Definition of Tubfuls
1. tubful [n] - See also: tubful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tubfuls
Literary usage of Tubfuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London (1911)
"The precious water came down in bucketfuls and tubfuls, and in two hours we caught
and stored away in the tanks one hundred and twenty gallons. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1888)
"I am not going to talk of bucketfuls and tubfuls. No words could give the least
idea of the dense mass of water ..."
3. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"What a blunder, he thought, had he committed, throwing cold water, literally in
tubfuls, on such good-natured offers ! ..."
4. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1893)
"from the standing trees, and the price is fixed by the number of tubfuls taken.
When firewood is sold, the trees are cnt into lengths of 8 feet 5 or G ..."
5. The Conquest of the Great Northwest: Being the Story of the Adventurers of by Agnes Christina Laut (1908)
"This, in a country where fish might be scooped out in tubfuls without either fly
or line! The committeemen meeting to transact the details of business were, ..."
6. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1884)
"It takes a quantity of water equivalent to three tubfuls to leach the base-metal
chlorides out. ..."
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