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submarineful

noun

Etymology

From submarine + -ful.

  1. derived from *móri✻
  2. derived from marinus
  3. derived from marin
  4. inherited from marin
  5. prefixed as submarine — “sub + marine”
  6. formed as submarineful — “submarine + -ful”

Definitions

  1. As much as a submarine will hold.

    • In the mornings we dug indefatigably for gold among the roots of the lime trees. ¶ ‘How much,’ Hamer asked, ‘shall we find?’ ¶ ‘A heap of treasure,’ William told us, ‘about a submarineful.’

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