sackful

noun

1. 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.”

   “Potatoes were getting very scarce. If you got a sackful you could take them down to the cook-house and swap them for a water-bottleful of coffee.”

   “You live until you die, and it doesn’t matter how you go; dead’s dead. So why carry on like a sackful of sick cats just because Herb Clutter got his throat cut?”

2. (figuratively)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.”

   “1853, uncredited translators, German Popular Tales and Household Stories: Collected by the Brothers Grimm, New York: C.S. Francis, Volume I, 74. “The Fox and the Cat,” p. 381, […] I understand a hundred arts, and have, moreover, a sackful of cunning!”

   “Day and night the poor fellow raved, and always about that confounded orchid, the loss of which seemed to weigh upon his mind as though it were a whole sackful of unrepented crimes.”

   “1986, Hanif Kureishi, “Bradford” in Granta 20, Winter, 1986, p. 163, He received sackfuls of hate mail and few letters of support.”

adj

1. (obsolete)Intent on plunder.

   “Now will I sing the sackfull troopes, Pelasgian Argos held,”