bankful

plural bankfuls

1. The amount that a bank holds.

   "Oh, a girl that has a bankful of money," replied Martha, carelessly.

   1893, Harper's Round Table, page 277

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   A history of cancer and heart disease, probably. Of course what she hoped was that his side of the family was fabulously wealthy. She'd spent her entire life fantasizing about him coming back into their lives somehow to give them bankfuls of cash.

   2006, Theresa Alan, Spur Of The Moment, Strapless, →ISBN

   To end my days in ignominy, trapped between a bitter old bureaucrat and a bankful of treacherous swindlers? All my twisting, my lying, my bargains, and my pain. All those corpses left beside the road... for this?

   2015, Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings, Orbit, →ISBN

   ... young suited masters who rove in packs and do not know anything of the earth or that which walks upon it other than how to extract bankfuls of cash from its black bowels and flex the city's breadth another stern block toward the mountains.

   2020, Grant Loveys, Miscreations: Poems, ECW Press, →ISBN

1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of bankfull.

   […] But as Mr. Spears writes, "A river of Jordan, running bankful of blood ..."

   1902, The Bookman, page 585

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   The river was reached at the ferry, and the memorable crossing undertaken. The scene has been commemorated in art and story. The Delaware, six hundred yards in width, was bankful of turbid water and floating ice. The current was deep ...

   1892, The Chautauquan, page 261

   An increase in the bankful capacity of the main stream at critical sections is proposed, but channel enlargement to provide for flood-now capacity is not feasible.

   1920, Monthly Weather Review, page 657

   High crests of these overflows were: Manhattan, 23.0 feet, 8.0 above bankful, on June 16–17; Wamego, 20.8 feet, 4.8 feet above bankful, on June 17; Topeka, 26.8 feet, 5.8 feet above bankful, on June 17; […]

   1943, Climatological Data, page 8

   Assume that tributaries 1 and 2 have equal bankful capacities, however, hydrological characteristics of the two corresponding drainage basins is somewhat different. During storm events, P(E1) = P (Bankful capacity of tributary 1 is exceeded) ...

   2002, Larry W. Mays, Yeou-Koung Tung, Hydrosystems Engineering and Management, Water Resources Publication, →ISBN, page 209