tinful

Doesn't mean anyone wants a cheap, stale tinful of popcorn in December.

El Guapo: Sinverguenza: A Holiday Survival Guide El Guapo 2011

I'll have to try this recipe as I have a whole tinful of saffron.

Christmas Dinner 2007 - Roast Capon with Saffron and Lemon Barbara 2007

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.

Blue Shoes And Happiness Smith, Alexander McCall 2006

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.

Sister Carrie 2004

Moreover, out of our abundance of rain we could well spare an occasional meat-tinful of water for the cooling of its internal fires.

My Tropic Isle 2003

She picked up the prosaic white tinful of comfort for babies.

Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995

She picked up the prosaic white tinful of comfort for babies.

Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995

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.

Chapter 8 1992

She ate a tinful of peanuts while I was there, looked surprised when they'd gone.

Hot Money Francis, Dick 1987

I used to share a tinful with him sometimes, after that.

Blood Sports Francis, Dick 1967