sackful

noun

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Etymology: From sack (verb) + -ful.

Intent on plunder.
“Now will I sing the sackfull troopes, Pelasgian Argos held,”

Etymology: From sack (“bag”) + -ful.

The amount a sack will contain.
“A sackful of sand won't help the soil here much, but a dump truck full would.”
“If I be not so rich, as to sowe almes by sackfulls, euen my Mite, is beyond the superfluity of wealth: and my pen, my tongue, and my life, shal (I hope) helpe some to better treasure, then the earth affoords them.”
A large number or amount (of something).
“what can the Pope say more for his sackfull of traditions?”
“[…] away we went home again fraught with a Sackful of news to tell our Master.”