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Tablespoonful

noun
(pl. tablespoonfuls)
1.
As much as a tablespoon will hold.  Synonym: tablespoon.






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"Tablespoonful" Quotes from Famous Books



... medicine which must be mixed in a tumbler of water. I want a tablespoonful given every hour, unless Clara is ...
— Beulah • Augusta J. Evans

... a final convulsion, and, despite the rope, kicked out with all his last strength. A tablespoonful of black clot came forth, the trickling of red blood having ceased ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy

... is left over may be made into croquettes. To each cupful of the cold fish allow one level tablespoonful of butter, two level tablespoonfuls of flour and a half cupful of milk. Rub the butter and flour together, add the milk; when boiling take from the fire. Add to the fish a level teaspoonful of salt, a dash of black pepper, a tablespoonful of chopped parsley ...
— Made-Over Dishes • S. T. Rorer

... part of the man, the orgasm throws the semen into, and all about the vaginal-uterine tract. The amount of semen thus discharged at a single climax is about a tablespoonful, enough to entirely flush and flood the area into which it is thrown. Its use and action there have already been described, and so ...
— Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living • H.W. Long

... privilege, passed. Henry could drink the coffee, but it didn't taste good to me. The brackish red wine they served with the army ration tasted like diluted vinegar and looked like pokeberry ink. It seemed only good to put in our fountain pens. A tablespoonful would last me all day. Our week's trip ended at Monter-en-Der, where there was a hotel and an Ambulance corps unit that had been over to visit the American troops and had brought back from the commissary department much loot. Among other things was water—bottled ...
— The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me • William Allen White

... morning, to the end that the circulation may regain its equilibrium as quickly as possible by the immediate relief of the pelvic congestion. If this exposure should have caused the sudden cessation of the flow, a hot mustard foot-bath should be taken. One tablespoonful of mustard is used to a gallon of water as hot as can be borne; the pail should be made as full as can be without running over, and a blanket wrapped around the pail and woman, so as to cause a profuse perspiration; this ...
— The Four Epochs of Woman's Life • Anna M. Galbraith



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