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# sackful

«sackful» in Mova's school dictionary: **the amount that one sack holds, or a whole sack full of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a sackful, sackfuls or sacksful)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sackful is the amount that one sack holds, or a whole sack full of something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sackful/#m1)

2) (informal, hyperbole) A sackful can mean a large amount of something, like a sackful of letters or presents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sackful/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories Father Christmas carries a sackful of presents; farmers and millers carry sackfuls of grain, potatoes or flour. In maths a sackful is a unit: «Each sackful weighs 25 kg.» Phrases: a sackful of, sackfuls of.

### examples

- Santa carried a sackful of presents down the chimney. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sackful/#x1)
- The farmer sold ten sackfuls of potatoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sackful/#x2)
- The miller ground a sackful of wheat into flour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sackful/#x3)
- We got a sackful of fan letters after the show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sackful/#x4)
- Each sackful of sand weighs 20 kilograms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sackful/#x5)
- The children collected a sackful of conkers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sackful/#x6)
- Why, I know a whole sackful of tricks!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sackful/#x7)

### note

Countable: a sackful, plural usually sackfuls. One l at the end: -ful, not -full. Maths: «3 sackfuls of 25 kg» = 3 × 25 = 75 kg.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sackful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sackful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.