compartmentful
nounEtymology From compartment + -ful.
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A quantity sufficient to fill a compartment.
- There they were, a train compartmentful, with their faces towards November Fair — what was left of it.1991, Kate Roberts, Joseph P. Clancy, The World of Kate Roberts: Selected Stories, 1925-1981, page 93:
- 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.2000, Angela K. Smith, Women's Writing of the First World War: An Anthology, page 68:
2 more examples
- 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.2004, The Hungarian Quarterly - Issues 173-176, page 71:
- And the little compartmentful of cherry pie isn't bad.2013, Thomas Berger, Being Invisible: A Novel: