Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the quantity contained in a case.
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- noun As much as a
case will hold.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quantity contained in a case
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country hotel abomination.
Sex Dungeon for Sale! Patrick Wensink 2010
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I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country hotel abomination.
Sole Music 2010
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I did a lot of letterpress printing when I was young, and a font is still a caseful of lead type, one particular typeface in one particular size, as it might be Book Antiqua 12-point.
gillpolack: My Wednesday students had our last class gillpolack 2009
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I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country hotel abomination.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950
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I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country hotel abomination.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950
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By a small caseful of medical treatises and a conspicuous stethoscope, the least experienced could see that it was labelled consulting-room.
The Lunatic at Large 1907
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By a small caseful of medical treatises and a conspicuous stethoscope, the least experienced could see that it was labelled consulting-room.
The Lunatic At Large 1905
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I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country hotel abomination.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country hotel abomination.
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On the contrary, by the process of sampling or picking out here and there, now and again, a book or a set of books which chance or circumstances may throw in our path, we may gradually acquire a caseful of most desirable specimens, against which it is out of the question to raise any charge of incompleteness, where incompleteness is the governing aim.
The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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