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fleetful|ˈfliːtfʊl| [f. fleet n.1 + -ful 2.] As many as would make a fleet; transf. a large number.
1899Westm. Gaz. 21 Feb. 2/2 The public would have paid for a fleetful of ships. 1908P. Dinneen tr. Keating's Hist. Irel. II. 165 The king gave him a fleetful, that is, two thousand two hundred, and they put out to sea. 1923S. Gwynn Hist. Irel. v. 45 The ‘fleetfuls’ of foreign students who came to attend surprisingly advanced teaching. |