apronful
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5.4
The amount you can carry in an apron at one time
- noun
- /ˈeɪprənfəl/
:
delantal lleno
- Annie collected an apronful of apples from the orchard to bake her famous pie.
Examples
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Each evening, before supper, when the light above the river washed the air with a green haze, Annie went out with an apronful of old bread.
Fiction book (2001) -
He made miracles in which rocks turned to sand and a girl's apronful of dates was made to feed hundreds of trench diggers.
Fiction book (2001) -
The farmer carried an apronful of fresh vegetables to the market every morning.
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After the harvest, she brought an apronful of herbs into the kitchen to prepare dinner.
Synonyms
armful
vsapronful
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1.8
An amount you can carry in your arms at one time
uses a cloth tied at the front to carry items rather than holding them
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Morphology
Etymology
The word apronful is made of apron and -ful, where -ful means 'full of'. So an apronful is the amount you can carry in an apron, 'as much as an apron can hold at once'.