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Boatful

Boatful \Boat"ful\, n.; pl. Boatfuls. The quantity or amount that fills a boat.

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boatful

n. Enough of something to fill a boat, or a boat filled with the thing in question

Usage examples of "boatful".

This painting showed a whale hunta great sperm whale, draped with harpoon lines, thrashing about in its death throes, a huge jet of bright arterial blood rising from its spouter, while its flukes dashed a boatful of harpooners into the sea.

Controlled enough to use it rather than be used by it, but it was nothing like action against a boatful of drug smugglers.