POCKETFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pocketful mean? 

• POCKETFUL (noun)
  The noun POCKETFUL has 1 sense:

1. the quantity a pocket will hold

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POCKETFUL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quantity a pocket will hold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

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

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

 Context examples 

The little tailor, not idle, gathered two pocketsful of stones, and with these climbed up the tree.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Reluctantly Martin yielded to the claims of the grocer, paying his bill with him in full, and receiving in change a pocketful of jingling coin.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)