bowl-full

== English == === Noun === bowl-full (plural bowl-fulls or bowls-full) Uncommon form of bowlful. === References === Allen H[ayden] Weld (1859), “The Noun”, in George Payn Quackenbos, editor, Weld’s Progressive English Grammar, Illustrated with Copious Exercises in Analysis, Parsing, and Composition, Adapted to Schools and Academies of Every Grade, Portland, Me.: […] O. L. Sanborn & Company; Boston, Mass.: Chase & Nichols; Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co, part II (Words), page 44: “Nouns ending in ful and full, and compounds in which the principal word stands last, annex s or es, to form their plural; as, spoonful, spoonfuls; bowl-full, bowl-fulls; man-trap, man-traps; step-son, step-sons.”