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  • noun Plural form of canful.

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Examples

  • The servant was staggering upstairs with two big canfuls of water; the task was beyond her strength.

    Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl 1909

  • And I don’t need to spend forty minutes every evening, the moment I get in, hauling watering-canfuls into the garden to save all my young plants from collapse.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Imogen 2009

  • And I don’t need to spend forty minutes every evening, the moment I get in, hauling watering-canfuls into the garden to save all my young plants from collapse.

    Imogen's Creative Fire Imogen 2009

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