inchful

English

Etymology

From inch +‎ -ful.

Noun

inchful (plural inchfuls)

1. A quantity that measures an inch.
   • 1905, Life - Volume 45, page 216:

     Neither do they have to drink that inchful of sediment.

   • 1930, Sir Seymour Hicks, Between Ourselves, page 91:

     If I am not mistaken, this nobleman, with an inchful of titles in the Red Book, was found dead in a bedroom somewhere in a small street off the Waterloo Road.

   • 1990, Dani Shapiro, Playing With Fire: A Novel:

     "This wine is older than you are," he smiles, handing me an inchful in a large wineglass.

   • 2016, Rita Dove, Collected Poems: 1974-2004:

     the lost wing would still itch and the wine stay bitter in the glass—a mouthful of sin in an inchful of hell

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