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  • noun Plural form of panful.

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Examples

  • She had devoted the day to arranging furnishings in the upstairs apartment, caring for Thor and baking panfuls of her notorious breads.

    Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971

  • Yet, in order to make assurance doubly sure, he collected two more panfuls, and melting this he applied it as before.

    Lost in the Fog James De Mille

  • This will make two good-sized panfuls of splendid cake; the apples will cook like citron and taste deliciously.

    The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette

  • He had taken panfuls at random over the bar, and uniformly it gave up coarse gold.

    North of Fifty-Three Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

  • So they went in to watch the oyster-man fry them two hot little panfuls, and sat over the coarse little table-cloth for a long half-hour, contentedly eating and talking.

    Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • Eudo Stent brought panfuls of fried bass, still sizzling under the crisp bacon; and great panniers woven of green palmetto, piled high with smoking sweet potatoes all dusty from the ashes; and pots of coffee and tea, steaming and aromatic.

    The Firing Line 1899

  • Besides the turkey and chickens there were "spareribs" and great frying-panfuls of fresh pork which, at this cold season of the year, was greatly relished by us.

    When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine 1887

  • The forenoon had been fine, and we had brought into camp nearly three hundred trout; but before they were half dressed, or the first panfuls fried, the rain set in.

    In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879

  • The last two panfuls contained a considerable amount.

    In the Heart of the Rockies 1867

  • One of the ravines, in particular, gave indications of being full of gold, and several panfuls of earth that were washed out shewed so promising a return, that the captain and

    The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West 1859

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