canful

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From can +‎ -ful.

Noun

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canful (plural canfuls or cansful)

  1. As much as a can will hold.
    • 1966, Seamus Heaney, Blackberry-Picking:
      Once off the bush / The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. / I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair / That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. / Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not.

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