Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun As much or many as a ship will hold; enough to fill a ship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun As much or as many as a ship will hold; enough to fill a ship.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun As much as a
ship will hold.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It began with a shipful of high hopes and good intentions.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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He was a father to a shipful of children, hearing their complaints patiently, mediating their quarrels, forgiving their sins, teaching them their tasks, and making all but their most trivial decisions for them.
Enjoyment 2010
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It began with a shipful of high hopes and good intentions.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps has sent weapons to the Palestinians -- remember the shipful of arms, the Karine A, that was intercepted a few years ago?
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It began with a shipful of high hopes and good intentions.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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He just may be able to, if he can stop the shipful of space pirates out to kill him, that is.
Date set for Issue #2 of comic adaptation of William Shatner's 1996 novel Man O'War Paul 2009
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He just may be able to, if he can stop the shipful of space pirates out to kill him, that is.
Archive 2009-12-01 Paul 2009
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Labat claimed that he once subdued a shipful of Spanish desperadoes who were aiming muskets and sabers at him by flourishing a cross worn by officers of the Inquisition.
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So some respectable dodo in the Mauritius might have lorded it in his nest, and discussed the arrival of that shipful of pitiless sailors in want of animal food.
The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009
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I would love to see a whole shipful of toddlers running around in any uniform .
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