bootful
nounEtymology From boot + -ful.
1
As much as a boot will hold.
- a bootful of water
- The river was quite wide and with a swift current, the shores low and gravelly, as was the bed of the river; but we all managed to get over without accident, except the writer, who, with his usual luck, managed to secure two good bootsful of water.1873, Samuel Hazard, “Cotuy”, in Santo Domingo, Past and Present: With a Glance at Hayti, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, page 301: