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- noun Plural form of
tumblerful .
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Examples
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But Mr. Dick was pouring out three large tumblersful of the stuff, and he held one out to me.
Where there's a Will 1912
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Filling and swilling hour after hour, he seldom rises before he gets through ten or fifteen tumblersful, and, if he happens to be thirsty, will double it -- enough, one would think, to founder a horse.
The Land of Thor 1848
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"If you were to begin now, and to take two or three tumblersful as I do, by the time you are my age, you would have drunk fifty hogsheads of rum, and I don't know how many tons of water."
The Three Midshipmen William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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