palmload

English[edit]

Blend of palm +‎ load

palmload (plural palmloads)

(rare) A handful
The amount of something which can be held in one's palm of their hand.
- 1970, Thomas Berger, Vital Parts: A Novel:
  With the whiskbroom of his left hand he gathered a right palmload of cocoa beans , took it outside for assaying , and saw a handful of gravel . There could be no mistake . Bob had definitely said cocoa . The words were not similar .
A lot
- 2009 November 10, Stephen King, Under the Dome: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 41:
  He wiped away a palmload of blood, looked at it unbelievingly, and then smeared it on his shirt. Now cars were coming from both directions—Motton and Chester's Mill. Three running figures, as yet still small, were cutting across the […]