hatful

Noun hatful has 2 senses

• hatful(n = noun.quantity) batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad - (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
is a kind of large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity
has particulars: deluge, flood, inundation, torrent, haymow

• hatful(n = noun.quantity) - as many or as much as a hat will hold;
is a kind of containerful