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inchful en · NOUN

Etymology

From inch + -ful.

Meanings

1. A quantity that measures an inch.
   • Neither do they have to drink that inchful of sediment. 1905, Life - Volume 45, page 216:
   • "This wine is older than you are," he smiles, handing me an inchful in a large wineglass. 1990, Dani Shapiro, Playing With Fire: A Novel:
   • If I am not mistaken, this nobleman, with an inchful of titles in the Red Book, was found dead in a bedroom somewhere in a small street off the Waterloo Road. 1930, Sir Seymour Hicks, Between Ourselves, page 91:
   • the lost wing would still itch and the wine stay bitter in the glass—a mouthful of sin in an inchful of hell 2016, Rita Dove, Collected Poems: 1974-2004:

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