roadful
nounEtymology From road + -ful.
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Enough to fill a road.
- Now, in those suburbs where cheap trains and cheap trams are having most influence, you may see farms being covered with houses, not by pairs or by half-dozens, but by roadsful and by hundreds.1900, Journal of the Sanitary Institute, page 322:
- The skidder moves about four times a day, cleaning up eight roadsful of logs.1915, Logging: A Monthly Magazine of Men, Machinery and Methods, page 271:
4 more examples
- The English, in particular, appear to enjoy consuming Minis by roadfuls and Mediterranean sun by the thermful.1971, George Fisk, editor, New Essays in Marketing Theory, Boston, Mass.: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., page 382:
- One could visualize the bursting of mailbags and the roadfuls of snarled trucks hard by the sagging loading docks.1975, Robert John Myers, The Coming Collapse of the Post Office, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, page 43:
- Turning at the café, I was held up by a roadful of cows, changing pasture at a pace that would not excite anyone’s milk.1997, Nicholas Kilmer, A Place in Normandy, Henry Holt and Company:
- By getting the household in the habit of leaving “outside shoes” in the basement, by the back door, or other main point of entry, we save ourselves the hassle of chasing down and cleaning up a roadful of dirt.1997, Paula Jhung, “Secrets of a Company-Clean Home”, in Guests Without Grief: Entertaining Made Easy for the Hesitant Host, Fireside, →ISBN, part I (Surroundings), page 12: