Contextualizebeta

launchful

noun

Etymology

From launch + -ful.

  1. derived from lanchier
  2. inherited from launchen
  3. suffixed as launchful — “launch + ful”

Definitions

  1. Enough to fill a launch (type of boat).

    • So at one in the morning Major Harvey, with a launchful of his soldiers, paid a surprise visit to the Ruffling Harry, with the result that they picked up nothing more solid than a hempen cable floating at the moorings.
    • They eject a few dozen launchfuls of tourists, greedy-eyed for the scenery, whom the Messrs Reid gather in and prescribe for for a few hours or a few months as the case may be.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for launchful. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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