SACKFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sackful mean? 

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

1. the quantity contained in a sack

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SACKFUL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quantity contained in a sack

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

sack; sackful

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

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

 Context examples 

Money could be made out of them, and he would wait and take a sackful of it into the South Seas.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“I am master of a hundred arts, and have into the bargain a sackful of cunning. You make me sorry for you; come with me, I will teach you how people get away from the hounds.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

She went down into the garden and strewed with her own hands ten sacksful of millet-seed on the grass; then she said: Tomorrow morning before sunrise these must be picked up, and not a single grain be wanting.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)