legful

Noun

legful (plural legfuls)

1. As much as goes on or in a leg.
   • It's the things you get besides the smelts— the spring moon over the spruces, the rush of the snow-water through the sets, the sudden excruciating breathlessness when you go in over your boots and have a legful of that same water.1949, John Gould, And One to Grow on: Recollections of a Maine Boyhood, page 208
   • But Josef's snake was in a state of such rage and pain that it vengefully administered a legful of lethal anaesthetic.2011, Louis de Bernières, The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman, page 313
2. As much as can be moved by a leg.
   • In the corner of the door jamb, the spider flings legfuls of web over the moth, spinning it around like a chunk of wood on a lathe.2008, Forrest Gander, As a Friend, page 73
   • The male rolls while the female, who has met the male at the dung pile, rides on his ball. down legfuls of dung to feed from later or to fashion into brood balls that serve as food for their larvae.2013, Bernd Heinrich, The Hot-Blooded Insects: Strategies and Mechanisms of Thermoregulation