ewerful

plural ewerfuls · plural ewersful

1. As much as a ewer will hold.

   it [container] holds three ənsära-ewersful

   1990, Thomas Leiper Kane, Amharic-English Dictionary, volume I, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 817

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   This is a wonderful place: a cream-ewerful skimmed off the great pan of London.

   1804 October 14, Alexander Knox, Remains of Alexander Knox, Esq., volume IV, London: James Duncan, published 1837, page 184

   That lie on ivory diwans and sprawl on their couches—another luxurious custom, which filled this rude shepherd with contempt—and eat lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the stall—that is, only the most delicate of meats—who prate or purr or babble to the sound of the viol, and as if they were David himself invent for them instruments of song; who drink wine by ewerfuls—waterpotfuls—and anoint with the finest of oils—yet never do they grieve at the havoc of Joseph!

   1896, George Adam Smith, “The False Peace of Ritual: Amos iv. 4—vi.”, in The Book of the Twelve Prophets, Commonly Called the Minor (The Expositor’s Bible; edited by W[illiam] Robertson Nicoll), volumes I (Amos, Hosea and Micah), London: Hodder and Stoughton, pages 174–175

   Like many another genius he was also passionately fond of water. In the city he often recaptured inspiration by playing with a ewerful of it, pouring it over his hands and head.

   1929, New Outlook, page 185

   I gasped like someone wakened from a sleepwalk, as shocked as if the ewerful of water had struck my face instead of Kambar Ali Street.

   2004, Heskel M. Haddad, Born in Baghdad, Authors Choice Press, →ISBN

   He saw a future where he learned the art of brewing root beer and brought Halley root beer floats by the ewerful.

   2018, Cidney Swanson, chapter 58, in A Thief in Time, →ISBN