Rowboatful

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Enough to fill a rowboat.

    "There were a few other families also picnicking and a rowboatful of young people in bathing suits were amusing themselves, sometimes rowing and sometimes stopping to dive out of the boat and climb back again amid cheerful shrieks and laughter."

Example

More examples

"There were a few other families also picnicking and a rowboatful of young people in bathing suits were amusing themselves, sometimes rowing and sometimes stopping to dive out of the boat and climb back again amid cheerful shrieks and laughter."

Etymology

From rowboat + -ful.

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