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from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quantity contained in a bin

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Examples

  • He did not want to see it, for he would rather have had the point on his tail again than to eat a whole binful of cheese.

    Among the Farmyard People Clara Dillingham Pierson

  • She bent down to look at the binful of yellow pollen; but it only appeared dusky.

    Sons and Lovers 1913

  • She bent down to look at the binful of yellow pollen; but it only appeared dusky.

    Sons and Lovers 1907

  • There's a whole binful of the 'Drowsy Drop' dollars, and

    Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

  • He sells nothing else, and has not only a pile of them on the counter, but a binful at the back of his shop.

    A Thousand Miles Up the Nile 1891

  • Would honest Jack have drunk a binful I would have treated him; and, to say truth, Jack's sympathy was large in this case, and it had been generous all day.

    The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Mrs Strauss said she now aims to throw out just one binful of rubbish in the whole of 2009.

    Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed 2009

  • JVC and other companies are working on TV sets that can switch between the usual 2-D display and a 3-D display meant to be seen with plain old polarized glasses - the kind of glasses that come by the binful at theme-park 3-D theaters.

    Cosmic Log 2009

  • Would honest Jack have drunk a binful I would have treated him; and, to say truth, Jack’s sympathy was large in this case, and it had been generous all day.

    The Virginians 2006

  • (mcachicagostore. org) where one in the "on" position (it lasts at least 24 hours) instantly draws the eye to a binful of the sparklers.

    unknown title 2009

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