countryful

English

Etymology

country +‎ -ful

Noun

countryful (plural countryfuls)

1. As much as a country would hold.
   • 1955, Lenard Kaufman, An Apple a Day, page 190:

     “But aren't these only a few? There must be a whole countryful of children like this.”

   • 1986, Lella Warren, Foundation Stone, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 30:

     Why, child, he's thinking of how to keep a whole countryful of land fertile, and safe from savages.”

   • 2010, Adelaide Pelley Pearson, A Reluctant Heretic, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 244:

     Converts were made singly or in batches, sometimes by the countryful, if the ruler thereof was persuaded to follow the Cross.