woodsful

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

woods +‎ -ful

Noun[edit]

woodsful (plural woodsfuls)

  1. As much as can be found in a woods; forestful.
    • 1939, Max Eastman, Enjoyment of Poetry: With Other Essays in Aesthetics, page 144:
      And when he is talking about a whole woodsful of these abstract trees he calls it "some branchy bunchy bushybowered wood," because he wants to feel as though it were here.
    • 1995, Mary Hufford, “Landscape and History at the Headwaters of the Big Coal River Valley”, in Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virgina[1], published 2001, page 9:
      1847-84 – Described by the historian William Bone as “a period in which farms were being fully established, a new county government was growing, the wilderness was still very pervasive with giant trees and woodsfuls of predators and bears."
    • 2012, James Still, Ted Olson, The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Still:
      Then it wasn't one lonesome critter; it was a woodsful, tearing each others' eyeballs out.
    • 2012, Jean M. Hughes, Walking Around The Sun, page 359:
      The melody from a woodsful of leafless tree-limbs blowing in the wind is not a single sound, but a combination of music from each species, and from each individual tree within a species.

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