"coffinful" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1831, Thomas Ken, The retired Christian exercised in divine thoughts, and heavenly meditations, page 167",
          "text": "My father, not many years since as healthy as myself, is dead, and lies yonder a coffinful of dust.",
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          "ref": "1949, Osbert Sitwell, Death of a God, and Other Stories, page 102",
          "text": "Little processions of black-clothed croupiers, with down-turned eyes, like the mutes at a funeral, marched through the rooms, guarding a coffinful of counters.",
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          "ref": "1976, Somhairle MacGill-Eain, Donald MacAulay, Modern Scottish Gaelic poems: a bilingual anthology, page 164",
          "text": "Although Calvin came he did not steal that love out of your heart: you loved the tawny moor, and suffered pain when that land and the flower were taken from you, and a coffinful of songs was laid in the earth.",
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          "ref": "2008, David Bilsborough, A Fire in the North",
          "text": "Gapp screamed inside his head, his skin crawling as if he lay in a coffinful of maggots, No bloody danger?",
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          "ref": "2018, W. Carter Platts, Angling Done Here! A Strictly Veracious History",
          "text": "A few days afterwards the coroner's jury sat on a coffinful of old brickbats and fragments of bed-clothes and boots and brace buttons and bits of Eli, and after a long discussion, came to the only conclusion possible, viz., that the deceased's death was attributable to a general breaking up of the system.",
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        "The contents of a coffin."
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          "ref": "2009, Katherine Kurtz, Tales of the Knights Templar",
          "text": "Other people can slow their breathing to where they can make a coffinful of air last a week.",
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        "The amount that a coffin can hold."
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