leapful

adj

leapful

adj

Etymology From leap + -ful.

1

Full of leaps: requiring one to leap or making many leaps.

  • Pity ('tis true) revolves their leapful springs, Smil'd thanks, attoning pray'rs, embracing clings, Sallies of guileless joy, gay gleams offense, Soft stroking flatt'ries — active impotence ;1753, Aaron Hill, Works - Volume 3, page 147:
  • O leapful look, assault of eye, hurdle the decorous delay.1954, The Virginia Quarterly Review - Volume 30, page 530:
1 more example
  • Bony rocks jut up from the water, forming a haphazard, leapful path, a path that looks like a twisted spine, to the bluff on the other side.2004, The South Dakota Review, page 55:

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