Where does shipful come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

shipful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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As much as a ship will hold.

"And in Elinor Gordon’s booth you’ll find a shipful of China Trade porcelains, of a kind that gave the West an image of China that the Chinese thought the West wanted to see."

From Middle English schipful, equivalent to ship + -ful.

shipfuls (plural) shipsful (plural)

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