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Etymology

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From lake +‎ -ful.

Noun

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lakeful (plural lakefuls or lakesful)

  1. The amount that a lake can hold.
    • 1972, Faruk Sümer, Ahmet E. Uysal, Warren S. Walker, The Book of Dede Korkut: A Turkish Epic, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 12:
      Make a lakeful of koumiss; and give a magnificent feast.
    • 1996, Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton, Gandhi: Selected Political Writings, Hackett Publishing, →ISBN, page 41:
      A drop of water must yield to the analyst the same results as a lakeful.
    • 2006, Zhilin Bian, The carving of insects, page 42:
      Please look at this lakeful of misty rain like water soaking me through, as soaking through a bird's feather.