Word Meanings - POCKETFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

As much as a pocket will hold; enough to fill a pocket; as, pocketfuls of chestnuts.

ENOUGH
Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! Luke xv. 17. (more info) (akin
POCKET
A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like. A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity. A hole containing water. (more
POCKET VETO
The retention by the President of the United States of a bill unsigned so that it does not become a law, in virtue of the following constitutional provision : "If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted)
POCKETKNIFE
A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.
POCKETBOOK
A small book or case for carrying papers, money, etc., in the pocket; also, a notebook for the pocket.
POCKETFUL
As much as a pocket will hold; enough to fill a pocket; as, pocketfuls of chestnuts.
WATER POCKET
A water hole in the bed of an intermittent stream, esp. the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood stage.
PICKPOCKET
One who steals purses or other articles from pockets. Bentley.