inchful

plural inchfuls

1. A quantity that measures an inch.

   Neither do they have to drink that inchful of sediment.

   1905, Life - Volume 45, page 216

   3 more examples

   If I am not mistaken, this nobleman, with an inchful of titles in the Red Book, was found dead in a bedroom somewhere in a small street off the Waterloo Road.

   1930, Sir Seymour Hicks, Between Ourselves, page 91

   "This wine is older than you are," he smiles, handing me an inchful in a large wineglass.

   1990, Dani Shapiro, Playing With Fire: A Novel

   the lost wing would still itch and the wine stay bitter in the glass—a mouthful of sin in an inchful of hell

   2016, Rita Dove, Collected Poems: 1974-2004