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- noun Plural form of
shipful .
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Examples
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In 1933 the Chinese fleet had disintegrated into shipfuls of adventurers offering their services by wireless to the various governments who divided the country.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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Two days at Colombo passed merrily enough with forty-five shipfuls of light-hearted troops exploring that Oriental city for the first time; and at the end of it the Cingalees were left in a dazed condition.
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"They're chaps that goes across to France and foreign countries, and brings shipfuls o 'things over here."
Cutlass and Cudgel George Manville Fenn 1870
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The Road Warrior to Pitch Black's Mad Max; a stripped-down, hard-edge actioner that just happens to take place on a world where there's three moons and mud demons and trisons and two shipfuls of mercs hunting down the galaxy's most wanted man. "
Cinematical Peter Hall 2010
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