chestful
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]chestful (plural chestfuls or chestsful)
- As much as a chest will hold
- 1839, Robert Montgomery Bird, The Adventures of Robin Day:
- and so we sent the boat, and took him off by night, him and the rest of them and a whole chestful of money
- 1973 Alden Hatch - The Lodges of Massachusetts
- When Cabot Lodge came home from the war with a chestful of medals . . .