chestful

noun

chestful

noun

Etymology From chest + -ful.

1

As much as a chest will hold

  • and so we sent the boat, and took him off by night, him and the rest of them and a whole chestful of money1839, Robert Montgomery Bird, The Adventures of Robin Day:
  • 1973 Alden Hatch - The Lodges of Massachusetts When Cabot Lodge came home from the war with a chestful of medals . . .

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