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ˈsieveful
[See -ful 2.]
The fill of a sieve. Also fig.
a1440Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S.) 26 She mesurid one cevefull And yaue it to the mynystris. a1658Cleveland Char. of Diurn. Maker (1677) 102 A Sieveful of Ballads and Godly Books. 1693Dryden Let. Wks. 1893 XVIII. 111 For feare the few damsins shou'd be all gone, desire her to buy me a sieve-full. 1725Fam. Dict. s.v. Hop Garden, When it is thus fastned, cast in two or three Sieve-fulls of Hops. 1856Morton Cycl. Agric. I. 193/2 A skilful workman takes a sieveful from the unfinished heap. 1895Saintsbury Corrected Impressions x. 89 A very sieve⁓ful of holes. |