Definitions
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- noun As much as a
flask will hold.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quantity a flask will hold
Etymologies
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Examples
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I add the frozen cubes to cold milk to make iced coffee, and had been packing a flaskful for work every morning until I realised the presence of a Thermos (plus glass plus brightly coloured straws) on my desk might suggest to my bosses that I consider myself to be under expedition conditions merely being in the office.
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Once upon a time there lived a king who was so fond of wine that he could not go to sleep unless he knew he had a great flaskful tied to his bed-post.
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I downed the second flaskful, and let him fill another before I held the bottle to see the label.
Chase the Morning Rohan, Michael Scott 1990
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The solution, diluted to two-thirds of the flaskful with water, is heated to boiling.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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_In taking the sp.g. of a liquid_ (_or, what is the same thing, a fused solid_) there is wanted the weights (1) of the flaskful of water and (2) of the flaskful of the liquid.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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"I'll e'en begin our potations myself," said he, filling out a flaskful of his liquor, and drinking it off.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 John Mackay Wilson 1819
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What is more astonishing is, that I only emptied a small flaskful into the basin, and it increased to the quantity you now see. "
Still Separate & Unequal Fredrickson, George M. 2005
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