Pitcherful

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quantity that a pitcher can hold.

    "The biographer, especially of a literary man, need only mark the main currents of tendency, without being officious to trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest."

  2. 2
    the quantity contained in a pitcher wordnet

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"The biographer, especially of a literary man, need only mark the main currents of tendency, without being officious to trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest."

Etymology

From pitcher + -ful.

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