Noun: shipful
| Singular | shipful |
| Plural | shipfuls; shipsful |
Sample Sentences
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And in Elinor Gordon’s booth you’ll find a shipful of China Trade porcelains, of a kind that gave the West an image of China that the Chinese thought the West wanted to see. [2007 January 19, Holland Cotter, “Treasure Hunt for Grown-Ups With Money”, in New York Times:]
Nouns inflected like shipful
seaful,
kettleful,
pannikinful,
sipful,
beakful,
beltful,
chairful,
folderful,
momentful,
boatful,
bookful,
bootful,
cellarful,
bowlful,
morningful,
phoneful,
wheelbarrowful,
fingertipful,
barnful,
bathful, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English schipful, equivalent to ship + -ful. See: Middle English Nouns '
schipful'.