Definitions
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- noun rare As much as can be held in the
crook of one'selbow .
Etymologies
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elbow + -ful
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Examples
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With infinite agility she scrambled to her knees and went darting off on all fours like a squirrel into some mysterious, clattery corner of the darkness from which she emerged at last with one little gray flannel arm crooked inclusively around a whole elbowful of treasure.
Little Eve Edgarton Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915
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