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coffee potful en · NOUN

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  1. (alt-of, alternative, no-plural) Alternative form of coffeepotful.
    • ADD CITY SCENES … the woman down the block from the Record office, carrying a coffee potful of water to a carefully tended sapling in front of her American Street apartment, ignoring the state’s plans to uproot her and her tree within a decade with the Crosstown Freeway. 1963 March 27, Maury Kane, “Those Chimes You Hear? They’re Secular, Not Spiritual”, in Stockton Record, sixty-eighth year, number 303, Stockton, Calif., page 13:
    • An adult may need as much as a coffee potful of marrow. 1990 May 27, Rachele Kanigel, “Transplant stories show boys’ ordeal”, in The News and Observer, Raleigh, N.C., section “Crippling the system”, page 13A:
    • LINES OF teary-eyed Florida motorists stretching to four blocks long clog the streets as they grovel for their bi-weekly allotment of a coffee potful of gas. 1974 February 22, Mike Shropshire, “Rangers Seeking Fuel for Friday’s Training Camp Opener”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, ninety-fourth year, number 22, section C, page one:
    • Savannahians drink it year round, and here’s a good way to make a gallon-size pitcherful: Place three family-size tea bags in the basket of your automatic coffee maker and brew up a coffee potful of tea. Put about a cup of sugar in the pitcher, and pour the hot tea on top. Stir it up and add a coffee potful of water and stir again. 1998, Betty Darby, Rich Wittish, The Insiders’ Guide to Savannah, →ISBN, page 76:
    • He secured a coffee potful of trout fry in the Big Arroyo country and clambered over some of the roughest land in the Sierra ranges. 1925 June 14, A. J. Ulam, “Nature Seen At Her Best: Trip To Upper Kaweah By Newspapermen”, in The Fresno Morning Republican, volume LXVII, number 165, Fresno, Calif., section “Where The Fish Are”, page 5C: