laneful

English

Etymology

lane +‎ -ful

Noun

laneful (plural lanefuls or lanesful)

1. A quantity that fills a lane.
   • 1935, William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck Duke of Portland, Memories of Racing and Hunting, page 203:

     He had no taste for the northern plough; nor, on the other hand, did he intend to run his head against the laneful of carriage and foot folk, that apparently cut him off from the best of the Vale of Belvoir.

   • 1968, Irene E. Cory, Pawdie, page 85:

     "Muuh, muuh, moo, moo," the calls came thick and fast. They sounded like a whole laneful of heifers.

   • 1979, Richard F. Hardin, Survivals of Pastoral, page 37:

     He tells how the parson, in gown and cassock, "with the parish Bible in his hand, and a sickle strapped behind him," opens the harvest by leading a laneful of farmers, laborers, wives, and children to the first ripe field, where he heaves up the rail across the gate, offers a prayer, reads the Scripture, and then cuts the first three "swipes" of corn.

   • 1999, Herbert H. Wernecke, Celebrating Christmas Around the World, →ISBN, page 223:

     Just then a crunching came to my ears; the crunching became a crashing, and round the corner of the birches dashed an agitated black mass, diving into the hollow, surging up over its crest, and roaring straight at me in full flight — a laneful of wildness!

   • 2016, Roy Rolfe Gilson, Miss Primrose: A Novel, page 172:

     Here beneath them the bloom of the golden-rod is upon the land; fieldsful and lanesful, it bars your way, or brushes your shoulders as you pass.