canful

noun

canful

noun

Etymology From can + -ful.

1

As much as a can will hold.

Once off the bush / The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. / I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair / That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. / Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not.1966, Seamus Heaney, Blackberry-Picking:

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