the amount (of tobacco, etc.) put in a pipe at one time
pipeful in American English
(ˈpaipful)
nounWord forms: plural-fuls
a quantity sufficient to fill the bowl of a pipe
a pipeful of tobacco
Word origin
[1595–1605; pipe1 + -ful]This word is first recorded in the period 1595–1605. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Creole, domain, exposure, option, posture-ful is a suffix meaning “full of,” “characterized by” (shameful; beautiful; careful; thoughtful); “tending to,” “able to” (wakeful; harmful); or “as much as will fill” (spoonful)