mineful

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Etymology

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From mine +‎ -ful.

Noun

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mineful (plural minefuls)

  1. An amount sufficient to fill a mine.
    • 1920, Harry A. Frank, Roaming through the West Indies, Blue Ribbon Books, unnumbered page:
      The Americans abandoned what had become a more than useless concession, and to-day a mineful of water, colored with copper sulphates and lapping undetermined streaks of ore, remains the property of the Virgin of Cobre.
  2. (figuratively) A large amount, particularly of something obtained through mining.
    • 1892, Horace Smith, “My Boating Song”, in Interludes: Being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses, Macmillan and Co, page 117:
      Oh this earth is a mineful of treasure,
      A goblet, that's full to the brim,
    • 1990, Judith Rossner, His Little Women, Pocket Books, published 1991, →ISBN, page 185:
      I had taken all this with a mineful of salt and had not been calling Violet more often.
    • 2008, James Lear, The Secret Tunnel, Cleis Press, →ISBN, page 44:
      Next came a glittering cloud, all wisps and sparkles, which eventually revealed itself to be Miss Daisy Athensasy in a swansdown-trimmed gown and a mineful of diamonds.

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