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deckful

noun

Etymology

From deck + -ful.

  1. derived from *þakjaną✻
  2. derived from *þakkjan✻
  3. derived from thecken
  4. derived from decken
  5. derived from dec — “roof, covering”
  6. inherited from dekke
  7. suffixed as deckful — “deck + ful”

Definitions

  1. The amount that comprises a deck (of cards).

    • In contrast, Colonel Parmenter having graduated from Choate and West Point, and been a high-ranking Kansas City officer, Mrs. Parmenter sat there with an entire deckful of aces.
    • I seem to have met a playing card deckful of Jacks lately.

  2. The amount that a deck will hold.

    • Next morning it made a brave sight even for English eyes as it sailed statelily in, capitana and almiranta leading, flying wondrous fair flags betokening the eminence of their commanding noblemen, and decksful of armed men.
    • He was a whole deckful of loose cannons, rumbling this way and that with the pitch of every wave.
    • We are only twenty miles from the Morrell Islands. How I long for a deckful of my friends to exult with me in this delight !

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA