thicketful

noun

thicketful

noun

Etymology From thicket + -ful.

1

Enough to fill a thicket.

  • a thicketful of brambles
  • A brace of ptarmigan brought home after a day's hard marching [...] would afford more pleasure than a whole thicketful of pheasants.1837, A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory, volume 1, William MacGillivray, page 125:

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