Meanings
plural decanterfuls
- Enough to fill a decanter.
We found a huge dish of fruit which someone had sent and a decanterful of white port.
1976, Evelyn Waugh, Michael Davie, The diaries of Evelyn Waugh - Volume 1976, Part 2, page 1932 more examples
After emptying a decanterful of water over his head, the Collector flung the decanter out of a window.
1924, Ivan Sergeevich Shmelev, That which Happened, page 44The clerk opened a cupboard to reveal half a decanterful of mayoral sherry, now grown viscous as treacle, groped on a lower shelf and produced the fur-collared overcoat the Mayor had left behind him on the snowy morning he vanished.
1972, Angela Carter, The War of Dreams, page 62
Origin
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