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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