A basinful of water.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

“Run for water — a basinful,” said Mother, and Phyllis ran.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Railway Children] Reference

One man gave a basinful of rice, the first we met with in the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference

"I will see that it is not too small; and perhaps, just to encourage you, I will have a basinful myself.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo] Reference

“Now then sir, what are the chances of Pa Wilde the chemist having a basinful of that in his locker?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Work for the Undertaker]

Pliny with an ivy cup would wash the wine in a basinful of water, then take it out again with a funnel as pure as ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

Half an hour later when she rose from the bed and began to pour out a basinful of water to bathe her smarting eyes, she heard a rustle on the threshold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference

The trouble was that as the frost continued water became scarce -- baths had stopped long ago -- and it began to be a question of getting even a basinful to wash in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fanny Goes to War] Reference

Each woman of the company will exhibit, on her return, at least twenty dollars of the oro, which she will gravely inform you she has just panned out from a single basinful of the soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference

To be sure, there are, now and then, "lucky strikes," such, for instance, as that mentioned in a former letter, where a person took out of a single basinful of soil two hundred and fifty-six dollars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference

And when she kept on begging -- to get rid of her, she said at last, "I will throw this basinful of peas into the ash heap, and if you have picked them all out in two hours 'time you shall go to the feast too.".    From Wordnik.com.  [My Book of Favorite Fairy Tales] Reference

After breakfast, the Counsellor (who looked no whit the worse for schnapps, but even more grave and venerable) followed our Annie into the dairy, to see how we managed the clotted cream, of which he had eaten a basinful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorna Doone] Reference

"Oh, just a basinful of snow," said Stephen lightly.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford] Reference

"Run for water -- a basinful," said Mother, and Phyllis ran.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Railway Children] Reference

I might have every day half a basinful, and would my master be any the poorer?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Violet Fairy Book] Reference

With a basinful of hot herbs, wash him with a soft sponge, throw rose-water on him; let him go to bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early English Meals and Manners] Reference

"Take this cornflour," said a voice at her elbow: the "permanent" had brought her a basinful of this food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl] Reference

She drew a pail of fresh water from the well, and brought a basinful to him, and bathed his burning face and hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sowing Seeds in Danny] Reference

Then, if the chimes went on till half the basinful was eaten, little Ida would nod her head contentedly, and whisper –.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances] Reference

At the second basinful the patient showed signs of fainting, and Bessé wished to loosen the mask, in order to give him more air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red True Story Book] Reference

Then put it very fairly into a basinful of fresh water, and forthwith took it out, to see whether it were written with stone-alum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2] Reference

A lid was lifted off, and a pleasant savoury steam arose as a basinful of good soup was ladled out, strained into another, and then the man turned to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea] Reference

The colouring matter thus produced is washed off into a basinful of milk, which is then allowed to stand and settle, so as to deposit its sediment before it is poured into the cheese-tub.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally] Reference

An English stranger at one of the hotels, after washing his hands, threw his basinful of soap-and-water out of the window just as the Grand-duke was passing, deluging his imperial highness from head to foot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General] Reference

And when she kept on begging, to get rid of her, she said at last, "I will throw this basinful of peas into the ash heap, and if you have picked them all out in two hours 'time you shall go to the feast too.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Grimm's Fairy Stories] Reference

I soon explained my wants; and, without the slightest demur, he ladled out a basinful of soup for me out of one of the coppers gently stewing over the galley fire, which looked quite bright and nice as the evening was chilly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea] Reference

In their feasting they would sometimes separate the water from the wine that was therewith mixed, as Cato teacheth, De re rustica, and Pliny with an ivy cup would wash the wine in a basinful of water, then take it out again with a funnel as pure as ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1] Reference

A basinful, and would my master be any the poorer?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Violet Fairy Book] Reference

“You might let us ’ave a basinful of your beautiful thoughts,” he remarked at last.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cargo of Eagles]

I got a right old basinful of them at uni, and I notice that the Torygraph comments are the same tired old arguments I’ve heard so many times before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opportunity Mocks] Reference

The doc says if she’d used the right poppies at the right time of year the old lad would have had a basinful of raw opium which would have put him out like a light.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Work for the Undertaker]

We used to put a basinful of them together and drop a bihorka in with them. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chorus Girl and Other Stories] Reference

A basinful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference

I want a basinful. ".    From Wordnik.com.  ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference

A small basinful, eh? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo] Reference

"Drink this basinful of coffee.".    From Wordnik.com.  [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference