launchful
nounEtymology From launch + -ful.
1
Enough to fill a launch (type of boat).
- So at one in the morning Major Harvey, with a launchful of his soldiers, paid a surprise visit to the Ruffling Harry, with the result that they picked up nothing more solid than a hempen cable floating at the moorings.1897, Arthur Conan Doyle, How Copley Banks Slew Captain Sharkey:
- They eject a few dozen launchfuls of tourists, greedy-eyed for the scenery, whom the Messrs Reid gather in and prescribe for for a few hours or a few months as the case may be.1909, William Henry Koebel, Madeira: Old and New, page 168: