[f. as prec. + -FUL.] The quantity that can be held in an apron.
1775. Drewry’s Derby Mercury, 28 July, 2/3. A whole Company of Regulars were taken ill from eating Nightshade, which a Woman, Wife to one of the Marines, gathered on a Hill, and boiled a large Apron-ful, which she divided amongst them.
1839. Birmingham Jrnl., 28 Dec., 3/2. I … saw prisoner Connor come out of her house with an apronful of rushes, and throw them into the privy.
1865. Pall Mall G., 15 Aug., 10/1. The chickens in a farmyard run cackling up to the goodwife when she appears with her apronful of barley.
1868. Miss Braddon, Dead-sea Fruit, II. x. 240. An apronful of flowers.
