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BOWLFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bowlful mean? 

BOWLFUL (noun)
  The noun BOWLFUL has 1 sense:

1. the quantity contained in a bowlplay

  Familiarity information: BOWLFUL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BOWLFUL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quantity contained in a bowl

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

bowl; bowlful

Hypernyms ("bowlful" is a kind of...):

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)


 Context examples 


She gave me a large bowlful, of which I drank very heartily, and found myself well refreshed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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