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elevatorful

elevatorful noun: enough to fill an elevator.

Noun

elevatorful (plural elevatorfuls or elevatorsful)

  1. Enough to fill an elevator.
    • In gathering up the goods of producers the car-load is the common unit, and yet an iron-bound rule in a national statute touching the commerce by rail of 100,000 miles of road, comprehending movements of freight where grain by the elevatorful, coal by the output of a mine, wood by the acre, or sand...1884 June 18, Congressional Record: Containing the Proceedings and Debates of the Forty-Eighth Congress, First Session, volume XV, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 5315
    • They come in elevatorsful, with their children, and their witnesses, and their lawyers.1947 August 24, Nadine Mason, “Life’s Errors Go to Court: Divorce Judge’s Day Filled With Others’ Problems”, in Los Angeles Times, volume LXVI, part II (Local News), page 1

Examples of elevatorful in a sentence

  • Yet in each instance an elevatorful comes out at one ton.1977, Norman Ward, Her Majesty’s Mice, McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 52:
  • The delegates trickled up, beginning about 7 p.m., then came by the handfuls, elevatorfuls and hundreds, finally making it all but impossible to move in the hall.1978 May 6, William Scaife, “...And a grand old party was had by all...”, in The Morning Union, volume 115, number 106, Springfield, Mass....
  • Forbidden City with its newly installed terrace was sold out last Saturday night-⁠-ten days in advance....The Chinese Skyroom turned customers away be^([sic – meaning by]) the elevatorfuls.1985, Tonia Chao, Communicating Through Architecture: San Francisco Chinese Restaurants as Cultural Intersections, 1849-1984, Berkeley...

Forms of elevatorful

pluralelevatorfuls
pluralelevatorsful

Origin of elevatorful

From elevator + -ful.

Questions about elevatorful

What does elevatorful mean?
Elevatorful means enough to fill an elevator.
How do you use elevatorful in a sentence?
Yet in each instance an elevatorful comes out at one ton.
What part of speech is elevatorful?
Elevatorful is a noun.
What is the plural of elevatorful?
The plural of elevatorful is elevatorfuls.

Words near elevatorful in the dictionary

  1. elevator surfer
  2. elevator surfers
  3. elevator surfing
  4. elevator talk
  5. elevatored
  6. elevatorful
  7. elevatorfuls
  8. Elevatorgate
  9. elevatorial
  10. elevatoring
  11. elevatorless

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