Pl. boatfuls, formerly boatsful. [f. BOAT sb. + -FUL.] The quantity or number which fills a boat.
1652. Season. Expost. Netherl., 9. The late Kings did not only give you the Fish, but the bayts to catch them, loaden by Boats full out of the Thames.
1873. Symonds, Grk. Poets, ix. 289. A boatful of careless persons.
1883. Dr. Georg Ebers, in Contemp. Rev., June, 851. Whole boatfuls of women of ill-fame going to the fair of Tanta.
