Definition of "dessert-spoonful" []

• As much as a dessert spoon will hold, usually reckoned at about two and a half fluid drams. (noun)

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• "When their operation is delayed, a dessert-spoonful of Epsom salts should be given."
• "Boil a teacupful of tea in three pints of water for ten minutes with a heaped dessert-spoonful of soda."
• "Take then a heaped dessert-spoonful of pure cocoa and mix dry with one and a half times its bulk of fine sugar."