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- noun Plural form of
trayful .
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Examples
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I just caught Blanche and Chanel wheeling the last trayfuls out, thoughtless cows.
The Great California Game Gash, Jonathan 1991
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Two men in blue overalls were moving about among the zinc plates and trayfuls of acid.
Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963
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Luckily no customers were present in the restaurant -- merely some waiters were sweeping out the rooms, and rearranging the chairs, and others, sleepy-eyed fellows, were setting forth trayfuls of hot pastries.
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If they find no appreciable quantity of gold they go on for one or two hundred yards and wash three more trayfuls, and proceed thus until they find a profitable place where they will halt for two or three days.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894
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When they set out to look for gold they wash three small trayfuls at three places about five cubits apart.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894
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Then the filled cans were steamed, by trayfuls, to exhaust their air; a drop of solder closed each vent, and they were ready for labelling and packing in cases.
Under the Great Bear Kirk Munroe 1890
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In the market-place at Santa Fé, in Mexico, peasant women from the neighbouring villages bring in for sale trayfuls of living ants, each about as big and round as a large white currant, and each entirely filled with honey or grape sugar, much appreciated by the ingenuous
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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And Michael O'Neill of Sag Harbor went rogue, independently serving up trayfuls of food, drawing more disfavor from the anti-immigrationists and code officers.
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