chairsful

Noun

chairful (plural chairfuls or chairsful)

1. A person (of a particular quality) that sits in a chair.
   • Then came a mixed party, that increased the audience to twelve chairsful, and in the few moments that followed there was such a steady procession of boys and girls, that Tom literally had his hands full.1886 October 21, John Habberton, “Tom Meredith’s Tableaux”, in The Youth’s Companion, volume LIX, number 42, Boston, Mass.: Perry Mason & Co., page 394
2. A quantity that fills a chair.
   • Garth, the collie, lay between them before the fire, his amber eyes only half-closed, except when in dreams he fought again his old battles ; and a chairful of cats and kittens slumbered peacefully.1936, Florence Robertson Cameron, Told in Furthest Hebrides

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