"stockingful" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "stocking + -ful",
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          "ref": "1907, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Merry-Garden and Other Stories",
          "text": "For, outside of a stockingful of guineas, all her capital was sunk in Merry-Garden, and all Merry-Garden hung now on the boy's life.",
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          "ref": "1993, Tom Flynn, The Trouble with Christmas, page 47",
          "text": "On a very deep level, then, they are one: the pint-sized demon at your door Halloween night who (formally, at least) exchanges his or her forbearance from soaping your windows for a handful of candy, and the jolly old elf who is imagined to slither down the chimney and exchange a hurried snack for stockingsful of joy — or judgment.",
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          "ref": "2005 December 9, Brian Nemtusak, “Screw X-Mas”, in Chicago Reader",
          "text": "More talent show than bona fide production, Sweetback Productions' stockingful of hit-or-miss fare would be most at home at a holiday party in an actor's apartment--an impression that the climb to a crow's-nest studio only amplifies.",
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        "the amount that can fit in a stocking"
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