Citations:trenchful

English citations of trenchful

Noun: "an amount sufficient to fill a trench"

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• 1906 — John Foreman, The Philippine Islands, T. Fisher Unwin (1906), page 490:

  Sometimes a trenchful of the enemy would fire a volley and half of them disappear through gullies leading to other cover.

• 1916 — Boyd Cable, Action Front, E. P. Dutton and Company (1916), page 113:

  "Beg pardon, sir," said 'Enery Irving with lofty dignity, "but if I 'adn't started this row the 'ole trenchful o' Frenchies would 'ave been 'owling our 'Gawd Save.' […]

• 1916 — Arthur Gleason & Helen Hayes Gleason, Golden Lads, McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart (1916), pages 95-96:

  But when he tumbles in from a gusty night out of a trenchful of mud, with the patter from slivers of shell, then he turns to song and color, odd tricks with the knife, and the tales of an ancient adventure.