tunfuln.
/ˈtʌnfʊl/ As much as fills a tun.
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1562 W. Turner Bk. Natures Bathes Eng. f. 4, in 2nd Pt. Herball Manye..carye great tunnfulls of it awaye, and drinke it in theyr houses.
1592 R. Greene Vision sig. B3 But for euery dram of mirth, they leaue behinde..a Tunfull of infecting mischiefs.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 338 You may drink a tunful if you will.
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