What does dipperful mean?
Dipperful means (US) As much as a dipper will hold; a cupful..
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/ˈdɪpəfʊl/ · noun
(US) As much as a dipper will hold; a cupful..
He [the horse-doctor] made up a bucket of bran-mash, and said a dipperful of it every two hours, alternated with a drench with turpentine and axle-grease in it, would either knock my ailments out of men in twenty-four hours, or so interest me in other ways as to make me forget they were on the premises. […] I took up the Christian Science book and read half of it, then took a dipperful of drench and read the other half.
Earmarks—those undebated dipperfuls of taxpayer-financed contracts that tripled under the Republicans—will undoubtedly return in the new budget.
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Dipperful means (US) As much as a dipper will hold; a cupful..
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He [the horse-doctor] made up a bucket of bran-mash, and said a dipperful of it every two hours, alternated with a drench with turpentine and axle-grease in it, would either knock my ailments out of men in twenty-four hours, or so interest me in other ways as to make me forget they were on the premises. […] I took up the Christian Science book and read half of it, then took a dipperful of drench and read the other half.
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