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shipful en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English schipful, equivalent to ship + -ful.

Meanings

1. As much as a ship will hold.
   • And in Elinor Gordon’s booth you’ll find a shipful of China Trade porcelains, of a kind that gave the West an image of China that the Chinese thought the West wanted to see. 2007 January 19, Holland Cotter, “Treasure Hunt for Grown-Ups With Money”, in New York Times:

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