trenchful

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English

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Etymology

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From trench +‎ -ful.

Noun

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trenchful (plural trenchfuls or trenchesful)

  1. An amount sufficient to fill a trench.
    • 1906, John Foreman, The Philippine Islands, T. Fisher Unwin, page 490:
      Sometimes a trenchful of the enemy would fire a volley and half of them disappear through gullies leading to other cover.
    • 1912 November 18, “Severe Setback For Bulgarians By the Turks and Report Is Verified; Frightful Atrocities Are Being Committed By Servians and Greeks, and British Guarding American Ambassador”, in Owensboro Daily Inquirer, volume XXVIII, number 91, Owensboro, Ky., page one:
      Whole trenchesful of victims have been found by the Bulgarians.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:trenchful.