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单词 beltful
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beltfuln.

Brit. /ˈbɛltfʊl/, U.S. /ˈbɛltˌfʊl/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: belt n.1, -ful suffix.
Etymology: < belt n.1 + -ful suffix.
As much or as many as can be carried in or worn on a belt; spec. as many cartridges as a belt holds. Also figurative.
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1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 788/1 Are you grown so chicken-hearted that you don't see the beltful of money round his body?
1858 F. J. O'Brien in Harper's New Monthly Mag. Sept. 435 She would look a whole beltful of dagger-blades at you.
1899 Cent. Mag. Apr. 935/2 He was equipped with a gun and a beltful of cartridges, and sent out.
1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 131 The first [anti-aircraft] gun opened with a trial beltful.
1972 J. Kenyon Popish Plot vi. 186 Scroggs..returned from Circuit with a beltful of priestly scalps and full of bounce.
2011 Gloucestershire Echo (Nexis) 14 Oct. 2 When my boiler started pouring water out of its overflow pipe, he was first on the scene with a beltful of spanners.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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