Crossword clues for sackful
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sackful \Sack"ful\, n.; pl. Sackfuls. As much as a sack will hold.
Sackful \Sack"ful\, a.
Bent on plunder. [Obs.]
--Chapman.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. the amount a sack would contain Etymology 2
a. (context obsolete English) Intent on plunder.
WordNet
n. the quantity contained in a sack [syn: sack]
Usage examples of "sackful".
Two stunningly unscrupulous people with rich but closefisted families could hardly devise a more surefire means of inducing them to hand over a sackful or two.
Martina in New York, running his duplex, wowing his moneymen and, for all I knew, proving a nightly sackful.
McGregor emptied out a sackful of lawn mowings right upon the top of the sleeping Flopsy Bunnies!
Boys ran urgent errands, clutching baskets of vegetables and heavy stacks of newspapers, or trundled rickety wheelbarrows spilling over with piles of red, coarse brick dust which they sold in little sackfuls.
He wanted to drive the car a hundred miles to someplace where he was not known, shack up with a sexy lady and a lot of booze, and end it that way--with a bang (he chuckled miserably) instead of all these sackfuls of whimpers he carried around night and day.
Carefully, while tossing sackfuls of confetti out with one hand, she set the thruster controls and pumped the burner.
Drop in a couple of sackfuls of trade goods of various kinds, as a gesture of goodwill.
Her companions brought the loom, a sackful of scrolls, dishes and spoons, shoes and boots and hats, a patterned carpet, a trunkful of uncut velvet&mdash.
Her companions brought the loom, a sackful of scrolls, dishes and spoons, shoes and boots and hats, a patterned carpet, a trunkful of uncut velvet &mdash.
Her companions brought the loom, a sackful of scrolls, dishes and spoons, shoes and boots and hats, a patterned carpet, a trunkful of uncut velvet everything they could move.
Declan's Valentines arrived by the sackful, but he was too preoccupied with Rupert to open them.