What does deckful mean?
Deckful means The amount that comprises a deck (of cards)..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The amount that comprises a deck (of cards)..
[…]then through the sunned gathering of her marjoram and sweet basil from the herb garden, reading of book reviews in the latest Scientific American, into the layering of a lasagna, garlicking of a bread, tearing up of romaine leaves, eventually, oven on, into the mixing of the twilight's whisky sours against the arrival of her husband, Wendell (“Mucho) Maas from work, she wondered, wondered, shuffling back through a fat deckful of days which seemed (wouldn't she be first to admit it?) more or less identical, or all pointing the same way subtly like a conjurer's deck, any odd one readily clear to a trained eye.
In contrast, Colonel Parmenter having graduated from Choate and West Point, and been a high-ranking Kansas City officer, Mrs. Parmenter sat there with an entire deckful of aces.
I seem to have met a playing card deckful of Jacks lately.
Next morning it made a brave sight even for English eyes as it sailed statelily in, capitana and almiranta leading, flying wondrous fair flags betokening the eminence of their commanding noblemen, and decksful of armed men.
He was a whole deckful of loose cannons, rumbling this way and that with the pitch of every wave.
We are only twenty miles from the Morrell Islands. How I long for a deckful of my friends to exult with me in this delight !
Three deckfuls of refugees at rest.
One galley rowed alongside a boat and came back with a deckful, some of which were hoisted aboard to be steamed for our dinner.
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Deckful means The amount that comprises a deck (of cards)..
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[…]then through the sunned gathering of her marjoram and sweet basil from the herb garden, reading of book reviews in the latest Scientific American, into the layering of a lasagna, garlicking of a bread, tearing up of romaine leaves, eventually, oven on, into the mixing of the twilight's whisky sours against the arrival of her husband, Wendell (“Mucho) Maas from work, she wondered, wondered, shuffling back through a fat deckful of days which seemed (wouldn't she be first to admit it?) more or less identical, or all pointing the same way subtly like a conjurer's deck, any odd one readily clear to a trained eye.
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