full v EDD ~ v¹ 19; ADD 2. To fill.
   1924 ENGLAND 79 'Safer out nigh the selvage, me son,' the Cap'n declared. 'A no'd-east wind'd full evvery bay out the Front an' might jam us.' [1929] 1933 GREENLEAF (ed) 242 "The Crowd of Bold Sharemen": We says to our skipper, 'What do you expect? / For we to go fulling all the puncheons on deck, / Go home in the fall, lift them out on your wharf, / And you then tell we sharemen we can't claim our part.' T 50/2-64 'Cordin' as the needle o' twine'd be used they'd full another one, see, with a ball. T 54/8-64 Pat stood guard, Mike went in the orchard. He got up in the orange trees an' he started pickin' the oranges, fullin' his pockets. T 75/7-64 But he had a cook. He told him to get rice for dinner. He fulled an oval boiler wi' rice, cover on the stove, an' it begin to plim. T 143-65 While we was fullin' the boat with water they killed three water bears. They was right up on the hill an' they never stopped till [they] tumbled right down alongside of us. 1977 RUSSELL 33 When Liz, his missus, (Grandma she is now), tipped up the keg that night to full the molasses dish, she noticed there wasn't much in it, so she wormed the story out of Grampa.

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