"thumbload" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1979, Mary Ellen Moore, The Robin Williams Scrapbook, →ISBN, page 80:",
          "text": "I have a whole thumbload of film.",
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          "ref": "2012 March 14, J. Campbell Bruce, Escape from Alcatraz: The True Crime Classic, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 174:",
          "text": "[…] gathering a thumbload of fallen particles and pressed them into the tiny gap at one side of the grille, then smoothed it out, his thumb a trowel.",
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          "ref": "2013 August 6, David Bradley, The Chaneysville Incident: A Novel, Open Road Media, →ISBN:",
          "text": "[…] if you have no honey, three thumbloads of sugar, and when the water boils, pour it slow till the fumes rise and make your mouth water.",
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          "ref": "2025 July 30, Sorted Food, 22:56 from the start, in Can Antique Gadgets Handle Modern Cooking?:",
          "text": "I'm applying a thumbload of pressure.",
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