compartmentful

English

Etymology

compartment +‎ -ful

Noun

compartmentful (plural compartmentfuls or compartmentsful)

1. A quantity sufficient to fill a compartment.
   • 1991, Kate Roberts, Joseph P. Clancy, The World of Kate Roberts: Selected Stories, 1925-1981, page 93:

     There they were, a train compartmentful, with their faces towards November Fair — what was left of it.

   • 2000, Angela K. Smith, Women's Writing of the First World War: An Anthology, page 68:

     He is clean and young and straight and far removed from the shadow procession I watch night after night, the procession that came to me early this morning and wakened me shrieking in the presence of a compartmentful of shocked strangers.

   • 2004, The Hungarian Quarterly - Issues 173-176, page 71:

     The revolving door metes out the aromas as two platinum-grey old dames totter in, rouged up to the eyeballs, expelling several door-compartmentsful of intense coffee aroma onto the street.

   • 2013, Thomas Berger, Being Invisible: A Novel:

     And the little compartmentful of cherry pie isn't bad.