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maskful en · NOUN

Etymology

From mask + -ful.

Meanings

1. As much as a mask holds.
   • The snorkels have automatic closing devices that usually work by gravity — which means little when a diver is upside down. A maskful of water isn't uncommon with these, but perhaps experience will show that you prefer one. 2005, John Blaine, Rick Brant's Science Projects, page 53:
   • That maskful of sleeping gas was worse than the poison, worse than death itself. 2002, Susanna Vance, Sights, page 11:
   • And there he was, some thirty minutes later, being placed on a stretcher by a muscular young paramedic, getting treated to a maskful of delicious oxygen that made breathing downright fun, if a gent can have fun under these kinds of circumstances. 2012, Ashraf Kagee, Khalil's Journey, page 2:

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