Meaning of waterglassful | Babel Free

Definitions

As much as a water glass will hold.

Examples

“[…]add⟳ gently a table-spoonful of flour (stirring all the while), and a water-glassful of good stock⟳, with salt and pepper;”

“A waterglassful, five fluid ounces, would hold⟳ in solution about 0.8 grains of strychnia.”

“Fasting stomach: two waterglassfuls of contents.”

“He poured himself half a waterglassful of the whiskey out of the pint bottle which he had gone out to buy⟳.”

“When the seeds begin⟳ to crackle—in about a minute—pour⟳ four waterglassfuls of cold water over them.”

“that settled her for a bit and we sat for a bit and we sat drinking down the waterglassfuls of wine, port.”

“At lunch-time and in the evening men drop in to drink⟳ a waterglassful of vodka, usually in one drought, followed by a chaser of Pepsi-Cola or pickled vegetables.”

“He poured them each a great big waterglassful of the rot-gut he usually drank, and, beaming madly, toasted, “Prost!””

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