BASINFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does basinful mean? 

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

1. the quantity that a basin will hold

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BASINFUL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quantity that a basin will hold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

basin; basinful

Context example:

a basinful of water

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

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

 Context examples 

It would have been better, as it turned out, to have led gently up to this announcement, for Mrs. Micawber, being in a delicate state of health, was overcome by it, and was taken so unwell, that Mr. Micawber was obliged, in great trepidation, to run down to the water-butt in the backyard, and draw a basinful to lave her brow with.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)