trenchful

English

Etymology

From trench +‎ -ful.

Noun

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.

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