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English
Etymology
From trench + -ful.
Noun
trenchful (plural trenchfuls or trenchesful)
- An amount sufficient to fill a trench.
1906, John Foreman, The Philippine Islands, T. Fisher Unwin, page 490:Sometimes a trenchful of the enemy would fire a volley and half of them disappear through gullies leading to other cover.
1912 November 18, “Severe Setback For Bulgarians By the Turks and Report Is Verified; Frightful Atrocities Are Being Committed By Servians and Greeks, and British Guarding American Ambassador”, in Owensboro Daily Inquirer, volume XXVIII, number 91, Owensboro, Ky., page one:Whole trenchesful of victims have been found by the Bulgarians.
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