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armfull

armfull is the obsolete spelling of armful.

Meaning of armful

Noun

armful (plural armfuls or armsful or armsfuls)

  1. The amount an arm or arms can hold.
    • [T]ake three or four good arms full of muckle Straw, Hay, or Fern, not too wet, not to dry, and obſerving which ſide of the Orchard the Wind blows on, then laying a good armful of muckle in three or four places according to the bigneſs of your Orchard, then get ſome dry ſticks, and having kindled...1670, [Joseph Blagrave], “How to Order an Orchard that It shall Never Misse Bearing”, in New Additions to the Art of Husbandry. …, London: […] Benjamin Billingsley, […], →OCLC, page 45

Forms of armfull

pluralarmfulls
pluralarmsfull

Questions about armfull

What is armfull the obsolete spelling of?
Armfull is the obsolete spelling of armful.

Words near armfull in the dictionary

  1. Armfield
  2. Armfields
  3. armfloat
  4. armfloats
  5. armful
  6. armfull
  7. armfulls
  8. armfuls
  9. armgaunt
  10. armguard
  11. armguards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: armfull (page history and authors); armful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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