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Eudora Thao
2021-01-01 07:01
Full to the gunwales British old-fashioned phrase
'Gunwales' is described as 'gunnels' and it is also often spelled that way. Not surprisingly, because the word is no longer in daily use, the only thing most of us know about gunwales is that they can be full or packed. Check any search engine and you will find plenty of "full to the gunnels" examples. Nonetheless,' gunnels' is really a misspelling.
If something is said to be "full to the gunwales," it means that it is extremely full; it is full to overflowing.
The garage is full to the gunwales, so if you want to buy this machine, you'll have to put it outside .
Clothes are filled to the gunwales in the wardrobe. She always says she has nothing to wear.
An early quotation of the word comes from England's Manners and Household Expenses, 1466. As literal references to heavily loaded ships, the expressions' full to the gunwales 'or' packed to the gunwales 'were first used. 'Gunwales' may have been a word from the 15th century, but until the 19th century there was no mention of the phrase, as in the Unitarian newspaper, The Monthly Repository, 1834.
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