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jarful

[ jahr-fool ]

noun

, plural jar·fuls.
  1. the amount that a jar can hold.


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Spelling Note

See -ful.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of jarful1

First recorded in 1865–70; jar 1 + -ful

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Example Sentences

Pack the pods into the jars, add a teaspoonful of salt to each jarful, and fill the jars with boiling water.

Unless the sirup is very thick, boil it until it becomes heavy; then fill each jarful of fruit with this sirup.

Dì ku makasatung ug inum ug usa ka búl tubà, I cannot drink a whole jarful of palm toddy straight.

He shifted from one foot to the other and absently ate a warm cookie from the jarful at his hand.

He collected a jarful of oxygen, generated in a way he had thought out for himself.

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