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tableful|ˈteɪb(ə)lfʊl|
[f. table n. + -ful.]
The amount or number that a table will hold or accommodate. a. As many (persons) as can be seated at a table; a company seated at a table and occupying all the seats around it.
1535Coverdale Mark vi. 39 He commaunded them all to syt down by table fulles vpon the grene grass. 1774A. Adams in Fam. Lett. (1876) 35 We make a table-full at meal times. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. iii, One man who is a little too literal can spoil the talk of a whole tableful of men of esprit.
b. As many (things) as a table will hold or is holding, all that is on the table.
1868H. A. Vaughan Let. 26 Dec. in Lett. to Lady Herbert (1942) 134 Mrs. Vaughan gave us tablefuls of excellent food. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. II. iv. xxxvi. 228 Lydgate's tableful of apparatus and specimens. 1886Philadelphia Times 9 Jan. (Cent.), Three large tablefuls of housekeeping things. 1977Zigzag June 15/2 He was so pleased to see me that he threw a tableful of drinks over..like in the movies! |