Definitions
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- n. as much as a tin will hold
Etymologies
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Examples
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Doesn't mean anyone wants a cheap, stale tinful of popcorn in December.
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I'll have to try this recipe as I have a whole tinful of saffron.
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She dropped her gaze to her garden, to the withered plants that she had worked so hard to see through the dry season and which had lived only because she had given them each a small tinful of water each morning and each evening, around the roots; so little water, and so quickly absorbed, that it seemed unlikely that it would make a difference under that relentless sun.
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Carrie looked about her, after she had drunk a tinful of water from a bucket in one corner, for a place to sit and eat.
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Moreover, out of our abundance of rain we could well spare an occasional meat-tinful of water for the cooling of its internal fires.
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She picked up the prosaic white tinful of comfort for babies.
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For perennial crops such as coffee, bananas and fruit trees such as mangoes and oranges, apply approximately a tinful or two of manure per hole.
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She ate a tinful of peanuts while I was there, looked surprised when they'd gone.
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I used to share a tinful with him sometimes, after that.
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Then a leisurely undressing and a hopeless effort to soap oneself -- soap will not lather in brackish water -- and a delicious coolness as a comrade poured a tinful down one's back.
The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918
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