Shipful

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    As much as a ship will hold.

    "And in Elinor Gordon’s booth you’ll find a shipful of China Trade porcelains, of a kind that gave the West an image of China that the Chinese thought the West wanted to see."

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"And in Elinor Gordon’s booth you’ll find a shipful of China Trade porcelains, of a kind that gave the West an image of China that the Chinese thought the West wanted to see."

Etymology

From Middle English shipfull, schyp fful, ssipvol, equivalent to ship + -ful.

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