Meanings
plural kitfuls
- Enough to fill a kit (basket or staved vessel).
2025, F. Marian McNeill, Catherine Brown, The Scots Kitchen: Classic Recipes and Traditions A kitful of salted butter had been gathered, little by little, and now a store of dried ling and cod was laid up, with a barrel of Loch Fyne herring and a quantity of rock-dried saithe.
Origin
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kitful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kitful
“kitful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kitful. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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