[see -FUL.] As much as fills a basket; also fig.
1574. R. Scot, Hop Gard., 49. Laye downe Basketfull by Basketfull till the bedde be all couered.
a. 1656. Bp. Hall, in Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. xlvi. 8. Whole basketfuls of heads … presented to Jehu.
1841. Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc. (1842), VI. 34. We are to pay the expenses of a basketfull of disgraceful wars.
