英语词汇“sackful”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

sackful

释义

▪ I. sackful, n.|ˈsækfʊl|
[f. sack n.¹ + -ful.]
As much as would fill a sack; hence, hyperbolically, a great quantity, large amount.
1484Caxton Fables of æsop v. v, I haue a sak ful of scyences and wyles.a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. viii. §4 (1622) 287 Not..by the sackfull, but by the whole Barnefull.1623–4Middleton & Rowley Sp. Gipsy i. v, This little ape gets money by the sack-full.1653Holcroft Procopius, Goth. Wars iv. 127 The Enemy fortified the breach with sack-fuls of Sand.1718R. Frampton in T. Evans Life (1876) 149 A sackfull of canting books.1724Swift Drapier's Lett. Wks. 1755 V. ii. 150 Wood..goes about with his sack-fulls of dross, odiously misrepresenting his prince's countenance.1882Harper's Mag. July 200 They had there found a number of broken mummies and a large heap of papyri. Of these last they offered him a sackful.
▪ II. † ˈsackful, a. Obs. rare^—1.
[f. sack n.² + -ful.]
Given to plundering.
c1611Chapman Iliad ii. 601 Now will I sing the sackfull troopes Pelasgian Argos held.

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