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shipful|ˈʃɪpfʊl|
† occas. with pl. ships full. Also 3 scipful, sipfol, ssipuol, 6 Sc. schippill.
[See -ful.]
As much or as many as a ship will hold.
c1205Lay. 23694 Don he hit nolde for a scip ful [c 1275 sipfol] of golde. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 917 He mette in þe se Þritti ssipuol [v.r. schipes fol] of men. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 507 Ther was not a schip-ful of men. 1511Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. IV. 306 Ane schippill of tymmer. 1515Sel. Cases Star Chamb. (Selden Soc.) II. 97 If thai had bought a shippful Irne. 1527Tindale Par. Wicked Mammon Wks. (1573) 62 A C. ton of holy water, a shipfull of pardones. 1535Coverdale Deut. xxviii. 68 The Lorde shal brynge the agayne in to Egipte by shippe fulles. 1611Cotgr., Vne Navée de, a ship full of. [1663Gerbier Counsel 109 Where ships full of lading, may be had besides large Timber.] 1852H. Newland Lect. Tractar. 151 When the people of Ireland by shipfulls go to America. 1856E. A. Bond Russia 16th Cent. (Hakl. Soc.) Introd. 5 Arthur Edwards set out from Yaroslav with a shipful of goods in July 1568. 1910D. Hay Fleming Reform. Scot. xii. 466 A shipful of the tempest-tossed and starving Spaniards. |