decanterful

English

Etymology

decanter +‎ -ful

Noun

decanterful (plural decanterfuls)

1. Enough to fill a decanter.
   • 1924, Ivan Sergeevich Shmelev, That which Happened, page 44:

     After emptying a decanterful of water over his head, the Collector flung the decanter out of a window.

   • 1972, Angela Carter, The War of Dreams, page 62:

     The clerk opened a cupboard to reveal half a decanterful of mayoral sherry, now grown viscous as treacle, groped on a lower shelf and produced the fur-collared overcoat the Mayor had left behind him on the snowy morning he vanished.

   • 1976, Evelyn Waugh, Michael Davie, The diaries of Evelyn Waugh - Volume 1976, Part 2, page 193:

     We found a huge dish of fruit which someone had sent and a decanterful of white port.