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  • noun Plural form of pipeful.

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Examples

  • After that he smoked two whole pipefuls of dried tea leaves.

    FINIS 2010

  • "Because there ain't three pipefuls of thet precious tobacco left."

    The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews

  • Your system comes to demand it just as an opium fiend comes to require so many pipefuls.

    Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

  • The sensible man smokes (say) sixteen pipefuls a day, and all differ in value and satisfaction.

    Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

  • Bill paddled leisurely, camping early and sitting late over his camp-fire smoking many pipefuls of tobacco.

    The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

  • Luckily my pipe, which was made out of a huge piece of cottonwood bark, and capable of containing at least twelve ordinary pipefuls, was filled with tobacco to the brim; and this

    Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916

  • Thus he would remain, looking meditatively out on Main Street for the space of three pipefuls; the time varied from forty-five minutes to an hour and a quarter, according to the kind of pipe he happened to be smoking.

    Warner and Wife 1915

  • And sucks three pipefuls, and takes a cruise down the passageway and has a chat with his old-time shipmates, the boson and the gunner.

    Wide Courses 1912

  • Martin Leland smoked his two pipefuls of strong tobacco and then departed to attend to some correspondence.

    The Short Cut Jackson Gregory 1912

  • When the first pipefuls were finished they laid the pipes on the floor and picked up the other two, showing no sign of distress.

    The North American Indian Edward S. Curtis 1910

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