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pitcherful

noun

Etymology

From pitcher + -ful.

  1. derived from βῖκος
  2. derived from pīcārium
  3. derived from pichier
  4. inherited from picher
  5. suffixed as pitcherful — “pitcher + ful”

Definitions

  1. The quantity that a pitcher can hold.

    • The biographer, especially of a literary man, need only mark the main currents of tendency, without being officious to trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest.

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