full n OED ~ B 2 b obs (1799), EDD 15. The quantity or content that fills (a receptacle) or completes a series.
   1910 Daily News 23 Feb, p. 3 "The Price of Food": I often for a shilling got, / The 'full up' of a bag. / To-day we got to take it, / With the price marked on the stump. 1925 Dial Notes v, 331 ~ A good load or cargo [of seals]. T 54-64 Lots o' squid summer evenings. He'd jig the full of the boat again before he'd leave. T 94-64 Maybe a half the full of a barrel of blubber. M 68-16 He told me to go back any time I felt like it and he would sing the full of a dozen tapes if I wanted. P 108-74 The child is the full of his clothes.

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