Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun As much as a vat will hold; the contents of a vat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun As much as a vat will hold; enough to fill a vat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun As much as a
vat will hold.
Etymologies
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vat + -ful
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Examples
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The battery is kept up by adding every eight days a few thousandths of hydrochloric acid to a vatful of the spirits under treatment, say 5 kilos. of acid to 150 hectoliters of spirits.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 Various
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From the taking of the first oyster to the draining of the last vatful of
East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888
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The next forenoon was passed boiling down a second vatful.
Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' 1887
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