Meaning of decanterful | Babel Free

Definitions

Enough to fill a decanter.

Examples

“After emptying a decanterful of water over his head, the Collector flung the decanter out of a window.”

“The clerk opened a cupboard to reveal half a decanterful of mayoral sherry, now grown viscous as treacle, groped on a lower shelf and produced the fur-collared overcoat the Mayor had left behind him on the snowy morning he vanished.”

“We found a huge dish of fruit which someone had sent and a decanterful of white port.”

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