trenchful

plural trenchfuls · plural trenchesful

1. An amount sufficient to fill a trench.

   Whole trenchesful of victims have been found by the Bulgarians.

   1912 November 18, “Severe Setback For Bulgarians By the Turks and Report Is Verified; Frightful Atrocities Are Being Committed By Servians and Greeks, and British Guarding American Ambassador”, in Owensboro Daily Inquirer, volume XXVIII, number 91, Owensboro, Ky., page one

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   Sometimes a trenchful of the enemy would fire a volley and half of them disappear through gullies leading to other cover.

   1906, John Foreman, The Philippine Islands, T. Fisher Unwin, page 490