transitive. To load or cover (a container, surface, etc.) with; to fill up with; to stack, to load.

transitive. Chiefly literary. To fill to overflowing, or until foam rises like a crown above the brim. Now rare.

To fill (a receptacle) to overflowing. poetic. rare.

To make into a sphere; to fill up or ‘crown’ with liquor.

transitive. To cause to overflow; to fill (a receptacle) so full that the contents spill over. Also figurative and in extended use.

full (also to fill) to overflowing: (to fill) more than full, so as to overflow.