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  • noun Plural form of glassful.

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Examples

  • So he went downstairs and drank two glassfuls straight down, filled another glass, and, at the top of the stairs, used the toilet which he would never have called a toilet in the other bathroom so as not to wake Ella with the sound of the flush.

    Portobello Ruth Rendell 2010

  • On the twelfth day my throat was so painful that, taking the chance of alarming the Martians, I attacked the creaking rain-water pump that stood by the sink, and got a couple of glassfuls of blackened and tainted rain water.

    The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

  • To make the calculations somewhat simpler, the guidelines are also given in glassfuls.

    A is for Alcohol 2009

  • To make the calculations somewhat simpler, the guidelines are also given in glassfuls.

    A is for Alcohol 2009

  • So we all made it home okay, gulped down glassfuls of clean refrigerated water, and sank into bed.

    2600m? Liv 2008

  • Mindell prescribes daily glassfuls of his specially formulated Himalayan Goji juice—which retails at a mere forty dollars a liter.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Mindell prescribes daily glassfuls of his specially formulated Himalayan Goji juice—which retails at a mere forty dollars a liter.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • So we all made it home okay, gulped down glassfuls of clean refrigerated water, and sank into bed.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Liv 2008

  • Mindell prescribes daily glassfuls of his specially formulated Himalayan Goji juice—which retails at a mere forty dollars a liter.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • As he spoke, Daniel Quilp drew off and drank three small glassfuls of the raw spirit, and then with a horrible grimace took a great many pulls at his pipe, and swallowing the smoke, discharged it in a heavy cloud from his nose.

    The Old Curiosity Shop 2007

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