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Meanings of jarful in English

The quantity contained in a jar.

Usage of jarful in English
1
Its face appeared unchanged, despite her jarful of gray goo.
Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World & Other Stories
2
There's a jarful of mud and so forth that we sure can't leave to the hyenas.
Out of the Primitive
3
It avails nothing that the ocean stretches shoreless to the horizon; a jar can hold only a jarful.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah
4
He shifted from one foot to the other and absently ate a warm cookie from the jarful at his hand.
The Seeker
5
Unless the sirup is very thick, boil it until it becomes heavy; then fill each jarful of fruit with this sirup.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery. Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit ...
6
And once, when they wanted pickled loach (from my description of it), I took up my boyish sport again, and pronged them a good jarful.
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
7
Then Theodora, Ellen, and Catherine prepared over a hundred jarfuls of the green vine and berries.
A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
8
Yup, she's talking about good old-fashioned, leftover pickle juice-thesame sour, briny juice your grandmother hoarded in jarfuls.
Ebony
9
'Don't you have to give them a jarful?'
Voices
10
"It's a matter of taste, perhaps, Miss Eleanor; but I prefer this to a whole jarful of scrubs."
The Freebooters of the Wilderness
Jarful through the time