Meaning of shirtful | Babel Free

Definitions

As much as is within, on, or held by a shirt.

Examples

“I watched him until he disappeared from view, and then thought I would open up the treasure I had buried and deposit some of the shirtful which he had so kindly given me after I had robbed him.”

“Cabrini Project kids bail it back with their hands, soak up shirtsful.”

“Calvin lays the shirtful of skunk on the ground and holds it with his foot.”

“It was not quite enough time to tackle the wood-fired bathtub contraption, but it was plenty enough to motor up a long, winding hill to the north, where almost a year before we'd found hatfuls and shirtfuls of morel mushrooms with Erik's friend Breakfast.”

“Holy Moses, Mr. Reilly, but you had a narrow escape, Devil a man in the barony can handle a cudgel as I can, and it was a miracle, and you may thank his lordship here for it that you hadn't a shirtful of sore bones.”

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