shipful

noun

noun

Etymology From Middle English shipfull, schyp fful, ssipvol, equivalent to ship + -ful.

As much as a ship will hold.

And in Elinor Gordon’s booth you’ll find a shipful of China Trade porcelains, of a kind that gave the West an image of China that the Chinese thought the West wanted to see.2007 January 19, Holland Cotter, “Treasure Hunt for Grown-Ups With Money”, in New York Times:

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