vatfuls

Sometimes an impatient speculator is seen with his coolies on the beach carefully washing vatfuls of "matter," perhaps employing a dugout canoe as a washing trough.

East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888

I've added wild pea shoots to salads, brewed minty flavoured tea from white dead nettle and cooked up vatfuls of hedge jelly from all those seemingly wasted rosehips, sloes and hawthorn haws see recipe.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011