bankful

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English

Etymology 1

bank +‎ -ful

Noun

bankful (plural bankfuls)

  1. The amount that a bank holds.
    • 1893, Harper's Round Table, page 277:
      "Oh, a girl that has a bankful of money," replied Martha, carelessly.
    • 2006, Theresa Alan, Spur Of The Moment, Strapless, →ISBN:
      A history of cancer and heart disease, probably. Of course what she hoped was that his side of the family was fabulously wealthy. She'd spent her entire life fantasizing about him coming back into their lives somehow to give them bankfuls of cash.
    • 2015, Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings, Orbit, →ISBN:
      To end my days in ignominy, trapped between a bitter old bureaucrat and a bankful of treacherous swindlers? All my twisting, my lying, my bargains, and my pain. All those corpses left beside the road... for this?
    • 2020, Grant Loveys, Miscreations: Poems, ECW Press, →ISBN:
      ... young suited masters who rove in packs and do not know anything of the earth or that which walks upon it other than how to extract bankfuls of cash from its black bowels and flex the city's breadth another stern block toward the mountains.

Etymology 2

Alternative form.

Adjective

bankful (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of bankfull
    • 1892, The Chautauquan, page 261:
      The river was reached at the ferry, and the memorable crossing undertaken. The scene has been commemorated in art and story. The Delaware, six hundred yards in width, was bankful of turbid water and floating ice. The current was deep  ...
    • 1902, The Bookman, page 585:
      […] But as Mr. Spears writes, "A river of Jordan, running bankful of blood ..."
    • 1920, Monthly Weather Review, page 657:
      An increase in the bankful capacity of the main stream at critical sections is proposed, but channel enlargement to provide for flood-now capacity is not feasible.
    • 1943, Climatological Data, page 8:
      High crests of these overflows were: Manhattan, 23.0 feet, 8.0 above bankful, on June 16–17; Wamego, 20.8 feet, 4.8 feet above bankful, on June 17; Topeka, 26.8 feet, 5.8 feet above bankful, on June 17; […]
    • 2002, Larry W. Mays, Yeou-Koung Tung, Hydrosystems Engineering and Management, Water Resources Publication, →ISBN, page 209:
      Assume that tributaries 1 and 2 have equal bankful capacities, however, hydrological characteristics of the two corresponding drainage basins is somewhat different. During storm events, P(E1) = P (Bankful capacity of tributary 1 is exceeded) ...
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