What is "dipperful"

Usage examples of "dipperful".

He made up a bucket of bran-mash, and said a dipperful of it every two hours, alternated with a drench with turpentine and axle-grease in it, would either knock my ailments out of me in twenty-four hours or so interest me in other ways as to make me forget they were on the premises.

Charlie entered the peristyle garden, empty at this hour, and pushed his cart toward the west wing, then paused in the darkness to bolt down five dipperfuls of fig-laden gruel as fast as he could swallow, not bothering even to chew.

Charlie risked another quick couple of dipperfuls, then busied himself feeding his master's most valuable for-sale stock.

And Calvin would take three dipperfuls of gold out of his pockets and set them heavily in Napoleon’s hands and say, How much of this do you want?

And Calvin would take three dipperfuls of gold out of his pockets and set them heavily in Napoleon's hands and say, How much of this do you want?

Garraty had made the tactical mistake of drinking three dipperfuls of the icecold water Mrs.

Garraty had made the tactical mistake of drinking three dipperfuls of the ice-cold water Mrs.

Gar­raty had made the tactical mistake of drinking three dipperfuls of the ice‑cold water Mrs.

He headed straight for the water jars and ladled dipperfuls of water over himself, scrubbing himself down with a handful of lye soap and a loofah sponge.