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shellful en · NOUN

Etymology

From shell + -ful.

Meanings

1. Enough to fill a shell.
   • "Coomara! And a mighty dacint sort of a name it is, too," cried Jack, taking another shellful: "here's, then, to your good health, Coomara, and may you live these fifty years." 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 532:

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