stoupfuln.
/ˈstuːpfʊl/ As much as a stoup will hold.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a receptacle > a bucket or pail
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1590 Articles against Lady Fowllis in R. Law Memorialls (1818) p. xxviii A stoupfull of poisoned aill.
1824 T. Carlyle Let. 18 Sept. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1970) III. 155 I have swallowed say about two stoup-fulls of castor oil since I came hither.
1892 J. S. Fletcher When Charles I was King (1896) 295 I see you have drunk all the ale—shall I fetch you another stoupful?
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n.1590- to come to fine
- to come to fruition
- to come to full fruition
- to come to good
- to have one's collar felt
- to have one's days
- to have one's ear to the ground
- to have one's ears flapping
- to have one's ears on
- to have one's ears to the ground
- to have one's eye after
- to have one's eye in
- to have one's eye on
- to have one's eye on the ball
- to have one's eye on the prize
- to have one's eye one's merchant
- to have one's eye to the prize
- to have one's eye upon
- to have one's eye well in
- to have one's eyeball on
- to have one's eyes in
- to have one's eyes on the prize
- to have one's eyes well in
- to have one's eyeteeth
- to have one's eyeteeth about one