Definition of "sackful" in 英语

noun

1. The amount a sack will contain.

   • A sackful of sand won't help the soil here much, but a dump truck full would.

2. (figuratively) A large number or amount (of something).

   • 1853, uncredited translators, German Popular Tales and Household Stories: Collected by the Brothers Grimm, New York: C.S. Francis, Volume I, 74. “The Fox and the Cat,” p. 381, […] I understand a hundred arts, and have, moreover, a sackful of cunning!
   • 1986, Hanif Kureishi, “Bradford” in Granta 20, Winter, 1986, p. 163, He received sackfuls of hate mail and few letters of support.

adjective

1. (obsolete) Intent on plunder.